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Broken Harts

  • 2021
  • 1h 25m
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6.9/10
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Broken Harts (2021)
In 2018, two women drove themselves and their adopted children off a California cliff. None survived. Investigators expose the dark truth behind the Hart family's picture-perfect online life and challenge a system that failed six innocent children.
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In 2018, two women drove themselves and their adopted children off a California cliff. None survived. Investigators expose the dark truth behind the family's picture online life and challeng... Read allIn 2018, two women drove themselves and their adopted children off a California cliff. None survived. Investigators expose the dark truth behind the family's picture online life and challenge a system that failed six innocent children.In 2018, two women drove themselves and their adopted children off a California cliff. None survived. Investigators expose the dark truth behind the family's picture online life and challenge a system that failed six innocent children.

  • Director
    • Gregory Palmer
  • Writer
    • Gregory Palmer
  • Stars
    • Tom Allman
    • Shannon Barney
    • Cynthia Bartley
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    361
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    • Director
      • Gregory Palmer
    • Writer
      • Gregory Palmer
    • Stars
      • Tom Allman
      • Shannon Barney
      • Cynthia Bartley
    • 10User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Tom Allman
    Tom Allman
    • Self - Retired Sheriff Mendocino County SO
    Shannon Barney
    • Self - Lieutenant Mendocino County SO
    Cynthia Bartley
    • Self - Evidence Technician Mendocino County SO
    Adam Beck
    • Self - Detective Clark County SO
    Drew Bunch
    • Self - Friend of Jennifer HArt
    Zaron Burnett
    • Self
    Bruce Carpenter
    • Self - Mendocino County SO
    Bruce Dekalb
    • Self - Neighbor of the Hart Family
    • (archive footage)
    Dana Dekalb
    • Self - Neighbor of the Hart Family
    • (archive footage)
    Diane Dyrstad
    • Self - Sarah Hart's Former Co-Worker
    • (voice)
    Matthew Guichard
    • Self - Hearing Officer
    • (archive footage)
    Abigail Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Cheryl Hart
    • Self - Sarah Hart's Co-worker
    Ciera Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Devonte Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Hannah Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jennifer Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jeremiah Hart
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Director
      • Gregory Palmer
    • Writer
      • Gregory Palmer
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    6slmarlowe-18314

    Tragic story

    I feel that the African American man hijacked this story to try and make it about race. If you want to blame social services for not interfering, I think it has more to do with two lesbian parents than the fact that they are white. Everyone was fooled by the lesbian mothers having the picture perfect family. I don't know the laws in Texas, but why did the Aunt leave them with her daughter who let the biological mother come see them? There are no easy answers, and six beautiful children lost their lives in this social experiment.
    9midnitepantera

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? NO NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY??? : O

    This is one of the Worst and Most Heart breaking Travesties in the past few years!!

    I can't believe that these 2 white lesbians, Pretended to want kids, all the while, it was just for a SOCIAL MEDIA EGO BOOST!!! People, stop believing what you see on Stupid Lying Social Media. People just pretend to have better lives to make you jealous and feed their Monstrous EGO's. These poor children were nothing more than Props for Photo OP's. And all the Social Media junkies, just Eat this Up and look how that turned out for 6 innocent kids??? :O

    I have no objection to alternate family structures, as long as the kids are wanted, loved, well cared for and not being abused.

    I have BIG issue with this couple, As it seems they adopted 3 young black children, whom they seem to be taking good care of, at least if you believe the pictures and posts online. But turns out they had a history of abuse reported by teachers and school nurses. And since stupid America doesn't have a Child abuse Registry these (white) women were just slapped on the hand, the kids left with them, and they just moved to another state and started their FAKE LOOK at My Wonderful LOVELY HAPPY Kids I saved Facebook Media Site. And people fell for all the lies and couldn't get enough, while these kids were being, abused, starved, force to perform a Happy Dance in public or in front of cameras like trained circus poodles. Then thrown back into that house of HOrror. (Just cause a house is clean and neat doesn't mean it isn't a Nightmare) Where the main caregiver, Jen, just spend time Leading a Video Game group of over 50 players and thinking of new photo ops for the kids to Feed her Hero Savior complex and her massive EGO.

    I hope that these poor kids deaths are Not in Vain and that Full Cooperation from all states in the US finally get a Registry of Abuse and Neglect for Children in Place. And that a lot of the Stupid Judges out there that have handed kids back to horrific abuse and death are removed. They obviously aren't paying much attention to these kids cases and I wouldn't trust them to clean my cat box. Much less to decide on a child's safety.

    But to make things worse, they let these 2 monsters adopt a 2nd set of 3 young black siblings. Whom were taken from Their real Auntie, who had loved and taken excellent care of them, but for 1 mistake, she let their real mom see them. And the courts whisked them away. At worst all that should have happened was to document the incident and make it clear to the Auntie if this happened again she would potentially lose custody of the children.

    Social Media has just become A HUGE DANGER, and is so Full of FAKE Garbage, people pretending their lives are great, they have so much, they look so great when in reality the bulk of them Don't. Its an Illusion. And It's harming young people lives, self-esteem and especially small children. You all do know the Pedophiles follow all your kids pics online too Right??? It's not just adoring mom's and dads.

    I wait with baited breath to see if they can take down this Evil monster known as FACEBOOk (aka META (that abuses and exploits people with their meta data they so easily hand over, many not realizing they are making a deal with the Devil and sacrificing themselves and their kids) Yeah, there's been a few good things to come from social media, finding a pet, a lost loved one, but overall the harm to children, teens, adults, animals, democracy is Much HIGHER.. Social Media has caused More Harm than Good and has made us a Bunch of Unfriendly, lying and Jealous FREAKS!! It's stealing all the Good things in our Humanity, with very little in return that's positive.

    All we can do is pray for these 6 children now. And work hard NOT to let this happen again and again and again. :(
    5tcomway1986

    Ugh

    Ugh. It's such a sad story with a horrible outcome. However the documentary has such a obvious agenda it's sickening. The blue haired gentleman hates white people every time he comes on it's some kind of Condescending comment about white people specifically white women. This Messes with the whole documentary. The blue haired gentleman is gaggingly sickening.
    2PhD_But_Not_A_Doctor

    Exactly What You Would Expect

    Two White lesbians became the guardians of six intractable black youths and proved what anyone without a corrupt mind already knew.

    The film is banal, with the obvious agenda of the director unintentionally providing the only true commentary on a society hopelessly professing/pretending to believe anything other than the truth.
    8lhmosca

    What a tragic story

    As expected, this documentary is HARD to watch. The lives these kids led is horrific. What also makes this hard to watch is the racism accusations that just aren't proven. To me, this is a woman (Jen) with severe mental health issues that were well hidden, a woman's partner (Sarah) who to me is a battered wife, controlled and doesn't know how to get out. I don't believe Sarah was a co-conspirator in the deaths, I think it was Jen. Irrelevant now. I think the "system" failed these kids, just like it fails kids every day all day long all over the country but racism? Nope. Not buying it. I think those kids would have been abused, neglected and ultimately killed no matter their skin color.

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      • May 18, 2021 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kłamstwo rodziny Hartów
    • Filming locations
      • Devonte Lookout, CA-1, Westport, California, United States(Where the Hart's car went off the highway)
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