Leigh and Jordan have an ulterior motive for their visit, and Harper has an ulterior motive for letting them in. With hopeful hearts and a charming sense of naivete, they ring the buzzer and ask: Would Harper be willing to give them some advice on making it as a woman in a man’s world? The gate swings open, locking with a loud click behind them. Using intel obtained from the aforementioned cads, Leigh and Jordan find Harper tucked away at the end of an old dirt road behind a pink mailbox and a wrought-iron gate overgrown with weeds. Instead, she suggests that they track down their idol, reclusive country legend Harper Dutch (Sagal), and somehow persuade her to record a song with them. Fed up with the boys’ club, Jordan talks Leigh into ditching a recording session set up by Leigh’s also-caddish boyfriend/manager Ritchie ( Joshua Leonard). As the film opens, the pair is angling for a spot opening for a caddish pop-country singer who waits until after he and Jordan hook up to tell her that the label has opted for an “all-guys tour,” and Torn Hearts is not invited. That being said, “Torn Hearts” is less explicitly feminist than last year’s “Lucky,” co-written by Grant and director Natasha Kermani.Īlexxis Lemire and Abby Quinn star as Leigh and Jordan, the lead singer and songwriter, respectively, of rising Nashville duo Torn Hearts. The film’s male characters are peripheral and largely irrelevant, important only in terms of fueling the conflict between the female leads.
Written by newcomer Rachel Koller Croft and helmed by actor-turned-director Brea Grant, “Torn Hearts” easily passes the Bechdel test.
“Torn Hearts” takes place within Nashville’s country music scene, a novel setting for a horror movie that also provides ample opportunities for social commentary.
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