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BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN

"Working Through Problems with Faith, Prayer and Understanding"

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What You Need To Know:

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN follows three different storylines about different people facing different kinds of challenges. Andrea is a young American girl in a wealthy neighborhood in Nashville. When something terrible happens to her, she doesn’t know where to run, but instead rebels against her parents. William is a refugee who’s been given the chance to emigrate to the United States, but must leave his family behind in Rwanda to establish residency first. Umuhoza is a young girl in the rural countryside of Rwanda whose father is in prison and who corresponds with Andrea.

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN has a strong Christian, moral worldview, but too many storylines that don’t flow smoothly. BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN is a movie made with good intentions about a real-life story. Despite this, the movie has a poor story structure, going back and forth to different stories. Many characters are seen praying and calling out to God, with a nice message about forgiving others. However, there’s some violence involving innocent people killed by a machete. Also, it’s implied a teenage girl is raped in a bathroom. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN.

Content:

(CCC, BBB, VV, S, AA, DD, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong Christian, moral worldview, with prayer, character cries out to God multiple times, one character forgives another character, one character washes the other character’s feet;

Foul Language:
No foul language;

Violence:
Multiple people killed by guns and by machetes, implied rape, and a man killed a family member;

Sex:
Implied rape;

Nudity:
No nudity;

Alcohol Use:
Implied drinking by an underage girl and boy;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking, but drugs are shown in a bag but are seen as bad; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Young teenage girl rebels against her parents, father is shown working too much.

More Detail:

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN follows three different storylines, showing that everyone is going through something, from those struggling in Africa, to the wealthy in the United States. BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN has a strong Christian worldview, but has too many storylines that don’t flow smoothly and some violence and other content that require caution.

William and his wife and daughter are in the midst of the horrible Rwandan genocide. When they are displaced from their home, they are on the move for a new place to lay their head. Everywhere there is danger, but they finally come to a place they can stay.

Umohoza lives with her mother and father in the Rwandan countryside. When her father is approached by a warlord, thinking he has no other options, he decides to go fight alongside him.

Andrea lives in an upscale neighborhood in Nashville, Tenn. She has a great life and lives in a beautiful home. Years pass, and Andrea is older now and goes to a Toby Mac concert with her family and a friend. When Toby Mac comes out and talks about donating money to children in Rwanda, Andrea begs her father to send money to Umuhoza. The two girls keep up by being pen pals, writing to each other constantly. Though they lead completely different lives, the two can confide in each other about anything.

One day Andrea goes to the Fourth of July fireworks with her friends. Her friends leave her while she visits the bathroom, and a man goes into the bathroom and sexually abuses her. She is completely distraught. Weeks pass, and Andrea feels she can’t tell anyone and that she has a horrible secret. She starts to get in some trouble, hanging out with a young teenage boy who’s buying drugs.

Suddenly, Andrea is fighting with her mother about everything, and one day she runs away from home. When Andrea and the young man are found by the police, the young man plants the drugs in Andrea’s bag to make it look like Andrea bought the drugs.

Meanwhile, William has been approved to move to the United States, but his wife and daughter must stay behind in Rwanda while he establishes residency. Saddened by this, but excited about the future, William moves to Nashville. William is able to stay at a church and works with Andrea’s father to build refugee housing. William is still praying for the day he can be reunited with his family.

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN is a movie made with good intentions about a real-life story. Despite this, the movie has a poor story structure, going back and forth between different story lines. Because of this, viewers are thrust into a different storyline each scene and taken out of the world they were watching. Very rarely do movies work when they have multiple storylines. BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN is not an exception, with scenes in Nashville and the next scene in rural Africa.

BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN has a strong Christian, moral worldview. Many of the characters are seen praying and calling out to God, with an uplifting message about forgiving others.

However, there’s some violence involving innocent people killed by a machete, some gunfire and fighting, and the references to rape involving Andrea. This really leaves the question of what age level the filmmakers wanted to reach. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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