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Broke

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Producer(s)IDProductions
Director(s)Rosie Dransfeld
Release Date2009
Work In ProgressNo
Runtime78 min
Format(s)none
Language(s)English
Youth MediaNo
Educational Materials Yes

Film Description



Won the prestigious Donald Brittain Award. Set in a pawnshop, the cinema verite piece tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a cynic pawnbroker and his sweet but psychopathic assistant.

Broke. is a complex, powerful cinema verite account of the day to day life in a pawnshop. The documentary gives us an intimate glimpse into a world most of us luckily do not have to know. Although often as funny and surprising as a sitcom, it bluntly points to the hardships and desperations of the marginalized. As the pawnbroker states: “You don’t see it in your rarified living conditions, you don’t see how the poor people live, unless you come here. Tragic some of it.”

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ3—NB1QTc

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Last Updated On:February 25, 2011

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Related IssuesEconomic Justice, Economic Development, Housing and Homelessness, Poverty, Welfare, Family & Society, Health/Health Advocacy, Death & Dying, Drug Abuse, Elderly, Mental Health, Human Rights, Racial Justice, Indigenous Peoples