BROKEN HEARTS CLUB - THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE IS…?

Originally a short film written in  2006  by writer/Director Angelo Bell, “Broken Hearts Club” is now a feature film in post-production.  A work-in-progress cut of the feature has been submitted to the Toronto Interntational Film Festival. The short film has just been submitted to USA IndieFest.

THE STORY: Genre: Comedy, romance, drama - In Treatment meets Love Actually.  Logline: Terrence, an apathetic clinical psychiatrist must treat a group of melodramatic, broken-hearted patients to get the job of a lifetime and save his marriage. SYNOPSIS: What does a clinical psychiatrist do when his clinically insane patients are replaced with the  clinically heart-broken?

Dr. Terrence N. Thiebold is a former All-American UCLA linebacker and now the leading clinical psychiatrist on the West Coast. He’s a stoic and regimented gentleman; apathetic to a fault but hugely successful in treating the criminally insane. However, Terrence’s very ordered and unemotional lifestyle is about to take a dramatic turn.

When Terrence’s flighty self-serving colleague, DR. KNOWLES, embarks on a journey, Terrence becomes the reluctant therapist  for twelve melodramatic emotionally distraught individuals in the midst of tumultuous break-ups. Terrence handles his new responsibilities like any uptight, anal-retentive advanced degreed professional — he runs for the hills!

Terrence’s new career-obsessed, lonely and hopeless clients take through the gamut of emotional frustrations ultimately putting his marriage in jeopardy. Matters become even more complicated when Terrence is offered a job at a prestigious Beverly Hills mental health clinic contingent on his successful results with his new patients.

Will Terrence toss pragmatic bookish methodologies away in favor of learning to counsel from the heart? Or will he succumb to his own inner demons and the ugly truth behind his obsessive rebellion against the vulnerability of love and emotions?

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