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Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Broken Bridges
Sometimes you have to go back to move forward.
2006 · 1h 45m · PG-13
Drama, Music
Directed by
Steven Goldmann
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Broken Bridges
Overview
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Director and cast
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It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
A limp, timeworn tale of a drunken has-been country star (Keith) and a TV reporter he had and lost (Kelly Preston) who meet again after returning home because of a tragedy.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater?
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle
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Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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