Release and Commercial Response
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2000. It received a limited release on September 29, 2000. In its opening weekend, showing at seven theaters, the film made $109,694. Two weeks later, the film made $153,468 as it reached twenty-eight screens and the week later, it grossed $175,553 as it reached fifty-six. In its eighth week of release, The Broken Hearts Club played at sixty-two theaters. The film's domestic gross totaled $1,746,585 after twelve weeks of release. The movie was released in a number of countries in 2001 and played at various gay and lesbian film festivals worldwide. The Broken Hearts Club grossed $272,536 outside of the United States, bringing its worldwide gross to $2,019,121.
The Broken Hearts Club was released on Region 1 DVD by Sony Pictures on March 6, 2001. It was released on Region 2 DVD on November 5.
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