There’s more plucking acoustic guitar in “Broken Diamonds” than can be heard in your average coffee shop — one of innumerable indie filmmaking clichés employed by “Broken Diamonds,” the story of a …
, whose overdone theater-kid turn further dooms the material’s stabs at humor and pathos. Consequently, the prognosis — for both its theatrical and VOD releases — looks dire.
On the eve of a move to Paris to try his hand at writing a novel, Scott has his life upended when his dad dies, leaving him in charge of caring for his volatile sister, Cindy , who hears voices, acts unstably and has been a lifelong center-of-attention burden on Scott.
Thus begins a misadventure of schmaltzy predictability. Scott intends to sell his dad’s house but he can’t get Cindy to sign the papers, just as he wants to hawk his car, only to have Cindy dent it. He tries to get Cindy a job, but she derails that employment endeavor through strange behavior.
That change comes after Scott’s own hang-ups are concisely and explicitly diagnosed by Cindy’s therapist in what stands as the clunkiest scene in a movie full of them. Such hokey gracelessness abounds, including from Platt, who over-delivers with every line, expression and gesture. There’s an artificial performative quality to Platt’s embodiment of Scott, with the actor going big at all times with smirks, sighs, smiles and tears.
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