The Broken Hearts Club

The Broken Hearts Club
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Greg Berlanti
Written by	Greg Berlanti
Produced by	Mickey Liddell Joseph Middleton
Starring	Zach Braff Dean Cain Andrew Keegan Nia Long Mary McCormack Matt McGrath Timothy Olyphant Billy Porter Justin Theroux Ben Weber John Mahoney
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Edited by	Todd Busch
Music by	Christophe Beck
Production companies	Banner Entertainment Meanwhile Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	January 29, 2000 (2000-01-29) (Sundance) October 20, 2000 (2000-10-20) (United States)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1 million[1]
Box office	$2 million[2]

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy is a 2000 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Greg Berlanti. It follows the lives of a group of gay friends in West Hollywood, centered on a restaurant owned by the fatherly Jack (John Mahoney) and the softball team he sponsors. The friends rely on each other for friendship and support as they search for love, deal with loss, and discover themselves.

The Broken Hearts Club was Berlanti's first feature film, based on his circle of friends at the time. The movie was met with generally favorable reviews from critics, receiving praise for portraying homosexuality as normal and its characters as average gay men. The film focuses on "the universal themes of romance, acceptance and family", as opposed to AIDS, coming out, and sex, which are more controversial and stereotypical topics commonly covered in LGBT films.^[3]