Days ahead of the release of Torn Hearts On Digital, Blumhouse Television and EPIX have released a new sneak peek clip. In the film, Katey Sagal (Married ...with Children, Sons of Anarchy, The Conners) stars as a famous country music legend now living life as a recluse. Meanwhile, two rising stars who pay the singer a visit with the hopes of mentorship get far more than they had bargained for. You can watch the new clip below.
Brea Grant directs Torn Hearts with a script by Rachel Koller Croft. Along with Sagal, the film stars Abby Quinn and Alexxis Lemire with Joshua Leonard and Shiloh Fernandez also featured. Executive producers include Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse, along with John Ierardi. You can read the official synopsis for the movie below.
"Blumhouse Television and EPIX present the cautionary tale of a rise to stardom set in the iconic Nashville Country Music scene. Two friends, rising artists on the brink of a big break, will do just about anything to realize their dream – including a pilgrimage to the legendary and reclusive Harper Dutch's (Golden Globe winner Katey Sagal) mansion in the hopes she’ll record a song with them. While their life-long idol seems intent to help, the visit devolves into a twisted series of mental and physical torment as the pair discover Harper - and each other - may have other motives. With no other choice and desperate to record a song, the duo must go to dangerous lengths to prove their dedication to their dream of becoming Nashville's next country music stars."
Torn Hearts Puts Its Protagonists Through the Wringer
At its core, Torn Hearts explores the lengths two people are willing to go to achieve their dreams. Perhaps another lesson that could be learned from the film is the old phrase, "Never meet your heroes." As the characters in the film just might discover, perhaps the price of fame is not really worth it in the end.
"It was a lot about how far you'll go to get famous," Katey Sagal recently described of the Torn Hearts plot, per The List. "How much of your moral compass will you leave behind? And some of that dog-eat-dog style of getting what you want is sort of set up by a boys' club. So, it's kind of the misfortune that women have to struggle even a little bit harder."
"[In the movie], what you see is, first of all, my character, who has been through the fame machine and now has a dark secret," Sagal goes on to explain. "[She] has lost [fame], and doesn't know how to function without it. She's [struggling] because she's not famous anymore, and she's hiding. And then you see the two girls coming in and what they'll rationalize to themselves is okay in the name of possible fame. It's a big lesson in what we'll do when we're afraid."
Torn Hearts is available On Digital on May 20, 2022.