While trying to break up a domestic argument, a police officer loses his cool when the female victim rebuffs his attempts to help her. A comic chase ensues. The officer almost convinces her to press charges when a call to rescue a woman locked out of her house turns his efforts upside down. With Jerry Della Salla, Savannah Haske, Melanie Vesey, Ray Jarrell and Nolan Tuffy.

This film has been described as "... a flawless character Study of a hot-tempered policeman and his comical yet serious trials one day on the job." It was honored for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the Columbia University Film Festival 2002, and was winner of Best Short Film at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Filmmaker Bio - Patrick Downs

As a student at Columbia, Downs wrote, directed and edited "Broken". Downs is currently completing a feature script tentatively titled "Sometimes Spiders Punk Their Own Selves," based on the characters in "Broken." He is also working on two feature screenplays: a high-energy drugs-gangs-terrorism-glittering nightlife thriller set in Miami, loosely based on Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew Of Malta," and a supernatural thriller called "Ghost In The Machine," about a detective who is trying to solve his own murder. In October he plans to direct a short film which is culled from the supernatural thriller "The Warning." This fall Downs will also direct the television pilot "The New Americans."