The Broken Tower

DramaHistory

4.7/10

111 min

Release Date: 2012-04-27

Overview - Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Production Companies

Made In Film-LandRabbit Bandini ProductionsFocus Features

Overview - Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

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Kenneth Axel Carlsson

7/10

This movie is about the life and death of the poet, Hart Crane (James Franco). It details his life, working for his father, trying to find time for his poetry, but also about his love life as a gay man. It is actually a very straightfoward movie, shot chronological, but does have some elements of poetry in the images as well (especially in the beginning of the movie), although not as much as I ...

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