"Broken Diamonds" a predictable but mostly delicate indie carried by Platt and Kirke
Broken Diamonds (2021) There is a set formula within “Broken Diamonds” — the one where estranged siblings must reconcile after the death of a parent and become closer. The one wrinkle is that the sister is schizophrenic, and the brother who felt overshadowed since childhood has to put his self-interest aside to get her the help she needs. Even when frustrating artifice often gets in the way, patches of levity and nuggets of hard truth help steer the pretty predictable route this bittersweet indie takes. On the night of his surprise going-away party to Paris, restaurant server and aspiring writer Scott Weaver (Ben Platt) gets the call from his father’s second wife Cookie (Yvette Nicole Brown) that Dad has died. Already stunned by the emotional blow of his loss, he eventually has no choice but to take in his schizophrenic older sister, Cindy (Lola Kirke), who is dismissed from her care facility for exceeding her strikes of infractions. They’re not very close anymore, but Scott real...