RECOMMENDED Lightly likeable and slightly cracked, Alan White’s “Broken” (2006), follows a familiar trajectory: girl with meaningful name, Hope (Heather Graham), moves to big city to make it big; meets boy with significant name, Will (Jeremy Sisto), who charms, entices, provokes; boy and girl do drugs together as the willful, hopeful culmination of their narcotic attraction to one another. (In a single night, she also meets representatives of the seven deadly sins. Go figure.) Sisto plays a shitheel as convincingly as any American actor today, with relish and slime trail always, as in “Waitress.” He comes on screen, you want to yell a warning like in a horror movie when someone says, “Wait here, I’ll just have a look in the basement.” Graham’s pretty terrific even at the narrative’s oddest turns, especially after trying to get out of Will’s way be becoming…a waitress, evoking some of the strengths she brought to “Two Girls And A Guy” and “Boogie Nights.” Jessica Stroup has a striking cameo as a confused woman on ecstasy. 97m. (Ray Pride)
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