Broke (2025): Cast, Plot, Release Date & All You Need to Know About the Haunting Snowbound Western
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- Apr 11
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đ BROKE (2025) â A Haunting, Snowbound Western About Redemption & Survival
âStay in the saddle.âThatâs not just a motto in Broke â itâs a matter of life and death.
Coming to digital platforms on May 6, 2025, Broke is a modern western like no other. Written, directed, and produced by Carlyle Eubank, the film plunges deep into the harsh, emotional terrain of bareback bronc riding, identity, and survival. With an outstanding cast led by Wyatt Russell, alongside Mary McDonnell, Dennis Quaid, and Tom Skerritt, this isnât your typical dusty trail ride. Itâs raw, cold, and painfully human.
đ€ The Story: One Man. One Storm. One Reckoning.
Meet True Brandywine (Wyatt Russell): a weather-beaten rodeo rider whose best rides are long behind him. With his career unraveling and his life a mess of regrets, True finds himself caught in a freak spring blizzard in the remote West. Injured, freezing, and utterly alone, he must push through the unforgiving landscape while confronting the mistakes and ghosts of his past.
What begins as a fight for physical survival turns into an emotional reckoning â a solitary, bitter trial by ice where each step forward forces True to face who he was⊠and whether he still has anything left to live for.
đšïž Why Broke Feels Different
Carlyle Eubank, best known for co-writing The Signal (2014), brings a deeply introspective lens to the Western genre. Broke trades in dusty gunfights and desert standoffs for psychological grit, intimate storytelling, and bone-chilling realism. This is a film about endurance â not just of the body, but of the soul.
Wyatt Russell gives a career-best performance, blending worn-down toughness with aching vulnerability.
Dennis Quaid and Tom Skerritt bring gravitas and grit in key supporting roles, anchoring the story with generational wisdom and hard truths.
Mary McDonnell adds emotional depth and warmth in a film otherwise dominated by silence and survival.
đŹ Visuals, Tone & Themes
Set against stark, snow-covered plains and howling winds, Broke is minimalist in dialogue but maximalist in emotion. Every frame is soaked in isolation and raw natural beauty, and the score moves like a heartbeat â steady, quiet, threatening to stop at any moment.
At its heart, Broke is about:
Masculinity and vulnerability
The price of pride
The slow unraveling of dreams
Finding purpose when all seems lost
đ Release Details
BROKEđ On Digital â May 6, 2025
đ„ Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
đ Genres: Drama | Western
đŹïž Setting: A brutal blizzard, a fragile man, and miles of unforgiving wilderness
đ Final Thoughts
If The Revenant met The Rider, and they had a quiet, mournful child raised on rodeo dreams and broken promises â Broke would be it. It's the story of a man past his prime, out in the cold, trying to make sense of what it all meant. A slow burn. A quiet storm. A reminder to stay in the saddle⊠even when the world is begging you to fall.
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