the Broken Hearts Gallery is good

The Broken Hearts Gallery is good. It is a romantic comedy set in New York. A woman named Lucy wants to run an art gallery. She has a habit of keeping items to reminder her of previous relationships. One night, after losing her job and a break up, she gets in a car thinking it is her Uber and meets Nick. Nick does drive her home and they talk a little.  

Nick and Lucy meet again later. Nick shows Lucy the hotel that he is trying to open. Lucy creates a broken heart gallery in the hotel after Nick advises her to let go a little. (I might be skipping a detail here or there.) This is a place for people to leave things that they kept from past relationships and with some advertising on social media, people start to donate things to the gallery. 

Nick and Lucy start to bond as the gallery gets more notice and as work on the hotel continues. Nick is hiding something. I guess all romantic comedies need a crisis or near crisis for the new couple. 

I liked the cast and I thought Lucy's roommates were fun but not too wacky. (The boyfriend that hardly ever spoke seemed a bit odd.) They did not feel like they belonged in another movie. I liked Nick's friend too. 

Maybe I was feeling generous but this might be worth seeing again. Lucy is played by Geraldine Viswanathan and Nick is played by Darce Montgomery. They have a good chemistry together. It was almost never in doubt that they'd become a couple. 

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