Writer/Director Greg Berlanti, the co-executive producer of television's Dawson's Creek, has made a remarkably confident and supple first feature film fresh from the Sundance Film Festival that focuses on the lives, loves and friendships of a group of late twenty-something West Hollywood gay men.  The real trick here is the way in which anengagingly entertaining mainstream package, filled with recognizable young-Hollywood faces, is wrapped around an authentic independent gay voice.  Sweet and gentle at its core in spite of the rapid fire barbs and witticisms of its members, The Broken Hearts League  includes, among others: Dennis (Timothy Olyphant), the aspiring photographer at the center of the film, who can't commit to anyone or anything but who throws great parties at the home he shares with his friend Cole (Dean Cain, best known for Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), a handsome cad of an actor on his way up, who hooks and then dumps Kevin (Andrew Keegan), a young man just coming out.  Other familiar faces are John Mahoney (Frasier's Martin Crane) as an older gay man who is a father figure to the group and Nia Long as the lover of the lesbian sister of another of the gay men, who wants him to father her child.  The Carpenters' music, campy and romantic all at once, in contemporaryremakes by other singers, fills out a knowing soundtrack.  The film breathes life into every character and, in its own breezy way,  sets a new standard that all other gay romantic comedies will have to meet.

Director Greg Berlanti and actor Dean Cain will attend the screening and discuss the film with the audience.

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