NOT EASILY BROKEN
A moving Christian marriage drama for teens and adults.
Should You Watch It?
NOT EASILY BROKEN puts its central truth plainly: marriage is strongest when a couple puts God first. Dan and Clarice begin with that understanding, but careers, disappointment, bitterness and competing desires slowly pull them apart. The film takes their problems seriously while holding out forgiveness, healing and restoration.
This is an inspiring Christian movie that does not come across as preachy. Its message is strong enough to bless viewers who want an encouraging story about marital healing. But the journey includes worldly struggles and too much foul language for a clean family viewing experience.
If you are choosing for teenagers or adults, this is worth your time; for younger children, choose something else.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESDan Johnson marries Clarice Clark, and their pastor tells them to keep God at the center of their marriage. Years later, Dan’s baseball hopes have been ended by injury while Clarice has become a leading real estate salesperson.
Dan coaches little league and longs for children. Clarice is consumed by her career and does not want children. After an auto accident leaves Clarice seriously injured, tensions rise when her mother comes to care for her daughter and criticize Dan.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is a highly enjoyable and inspiring film whose central message carries real weight. The movie presents marital conflict clearly and builds toward a Christian solution centered on God, forgiveness, healing and restoration.
Its strongest achievement is its direct, serious treatment of putting God first in marriage. The source review offers few specific observations about the film’s direction, performances or visual craft.
The Worldview
NOT EASILY BROKEN presents a profoundly Christian worldview. It believes marriage needs God at its center and that bitterness does not have to destroy a relationship. The film exalts forgiveness, surrender to God, healing and restoration, showing biblical principles as answers to serious relational problems.
The movie also portrays people living amid obscenities, violence and other worldly struggles. Those elements are not presented as the solution; instead, the story moves toward turning lives over to God. Its Christian message is clear without being preachy, and its aim reaches beyond a church audience.
The film’s central longing is for a marriage to be restored rather than broken. Its opening image of a three-strand rope recalls the wisdom of Ecclesiastes: “A threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
A very strong Christian worldview with worldly problems that beg for and get a Christian solution; 31 obscenities (no f-words) and one use of God and one of Jesus in vain; sporting activity leads to a fight (quickly broken up); some talk of sex; wife shown in nightgown, a backrub is given in a dream, but no offensive nudity; drinking of beer; no smoking; and, nothing else objectionable.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Dan and Clarice are told to keep God at the center of their marriage. What does it look like to put God first in a relationship?
Matthew 6:33 · Ecclesiastes 4:12How can bitterness grow between people, and how can forgiveness interrupt that growth?
Ephesians 4:31–32 · Colossians 3:13The movie connects healing with turning your life over to God. What does trusting God look like when a problem cannot be fixed quickly?
Proverbs 3:5–6 · Psalm 46:1What makes a Christian movie’s message feel sincere rather than preachy? How can Christians speak about faith with grace?
Colossians 4:5–6 · 1 Peter 3:15The Final Word
NOT EASILY BROKEN offers a heartfelt, strongly Christian message about putting God first in marriage. Its foul language and mature struggles mean parents should use discernment with younger children, but teenagers and adults can find encouragement here. Our answer is WORTH THE TRIP — TEENS AND ADULTS.
