A true passion project for Wyatt Russell, “Broke” chronicles never-say-die rodeo rider True Brandywine’s coming to grips with his life choices.

How long, his farming father (Dennis Quaid) wonders, can True continue to abuse himself as a bronco-busting cowboy? What’s ultimately the point in sticking to this dead-end dream?

Those were questions Russell, as both executive producer and star, had asked himself before any camera rolled.

“The script was written by Carlyle Eubank. I read it a few years ago now,” Russell, 38, reflected in a Zoom interview. “What connected with me was that there aren’t very many movies in the rodeo space, the cowboy world, that don’t put a shiny sheen on it. It’s fun. But it’s not the reality of what it’s like to be a farmer, a rancher, a bareback rider.

“This just resonated with me because I did it in hockey. I played junior and professional hockey in stadiums to sometimes 300 people, sometimes 1,000, sometimes 5,000 people. You did it because you loved it.

“There was a promise — of something at the end of the rainbow. But then,” he emphasized, “the end of the rainbow starts to shrink, get further and further away.

“You find yourself still going after it — after five head injuries or breaking bones.

“This is really about that side of the world where it’s somebody who just can’t let go. I connected with that, because that was me and hockey. I couldn’t have let go unless someone told me that I was done.”

That reality is in every frame of “Broke” which filmed entirely in Montana.

“Everybody grinding together for the love. No one’s making much money. We were all doing it. I had to bury myself in snow for three minutes while the camera pans slowly across a field in negative 35 degree weather in Montana. Wisdom, Montana, where you don’t get service for 30 miles.

“My ‘trailer’ on that movie was a rented Buick on the side of the road. I run in there, try and get warm.

“It was hell and coming out of it finally we’re getting to show people. You can feel it on camera, what we did.

“We shot at real rodeos. We have one of the stock riders go out and ride for me because obviously, I’m 38 years old, and I would die doing some of what they did.

“But I was able to do some of the horsemanship that wasn’t in the rodeo. I was working cattle, doing stuff that you see on film that was fun to do.

“What you see is what you get in this movie. What makes it real. This film is what I’m most proud of, I have to tell you.”

“Broke” is available on VOD and digital May 6