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Broken Flowers (2005)

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88

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 185
Fresh: 162 | Rotten: 23

Bill Murray's subtle and understated style complements director Jim Jarmusch's minimalist storytelling in this quirky, but deadpan comedy.

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 7

Bill Murray's subtle and understated style complements director Jim Jarmusch's minimalist storytelling in this quirky, but deadpan comedy.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Movie Info

A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to shrewd investments in computers (though he doesn't use one himself). After being given his walking papers by his latest girlfriend, Sherry (Julie Delpy), Don receives an anonymous letter informing him

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Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Jim Jarmusch

Jan 3, 2006

$13.6M

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All Critics (193) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (167) | Rotten (24) | DVD (33)

The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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Murray manages, almost impossibly, to come up with still another rich variation on his Depleted Man persona, and his performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty.

December 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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A very gentle and wry outing for Jarmusch and his star.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
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Completely charming, but ultimately slight.

August 12, 2005
Detroit News
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You can't take your eyes off [Murray], and you leave Broken Flowers hoping he's feeling better -- about life, love, everything.

August 12, 2005
Detroit Free Press
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It kept me absorbed all the way through, especially the collaboration between acting auteur Bill Murray and Mr. Jarmusch in virtually every frame of the film.

August 11, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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Many will relish Broken Flowers' refusal to serve up a resolution; others will find it frustrating. Inevitably, that's Jarmusch: like Murray's character journey, the rewards lie in the small moments that fade as much as the ones that linger.

November 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia
Empire Magazine Australasia

Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors.

September 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Film and Felt
Film and Felt

Throbs with compressed emotion

September 5, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.

October 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

Minimalist melodrama for older teens and adults only.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Each encounter is a finely observed and beautifully performed vignette in its own right, but together they sketch out a past from which our grey Lothario has been irrevocably set adrift.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film
Eye for Film

Womanizer cads may be front and center in movies. But surprisingly sometimes, so are the impressive accompanying ensemble righteous females who cut them nicely down to size, and the quirky and twisted Broken Flowers is no exception.

June 1, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)
Long Island Press

Womanizer cads may be front and center in movies. But surprisingly sometimes, so are the impressive accompanying ensemble righteous females who cut them nicely down to size, and the quirky and twisted Broken Flowers is no exception.

May 25, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

The auteur's unbeatable weirdness here mutates into preciosity.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

After a career of deadpanning, Murray's impassive performance is still fresh, funny, sympathetic and restrained.

September 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound

This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react.

August 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Subtle, warm direction from Jim Jarmusch and another Oscar-worthy performance from Bill Murray -- will the Academy just give him a statue, already?

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Broken Flowers

Still-life with Bill. Low-key semi-detached and floaty. A little sad, a little funny and a lot of driving - at least there were good tunes for the ride.
March 26, 2007
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The films of Jim Jarmusch are offbeat and quirky. This film continues that tradition. It also continues a recent trend of Bill Murray playing a sad sack character who is miserable and a mess, much like Jack Nicholson's character in About Schmidt. This film is a good one, and, while there's nothing really wrong with it per se, it's not great either. It just feels like things are set to autopilot. The performances from a wonderful cast are great though, as is the art direction/set design. I also liked the music, especially the inclusion of an excerpt from the song "Dopesmoker" by Sleep. Had I not already seen a handful of other films similar to this one, I would probably say that this film is absolutely brilliant. As it is though, I liked it, but think my enjoyment is mostly due to being a fan.
June 9, 2006
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Chris Weber

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    1. Don Johnston: Couldn't you have rented me a Porsche or some car I might really drive? I'm a stalker in a Taurus.
    – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
    1. Don Johnston: Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
    – Submitted by Félix C (10 months ago)

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