Broken Flowers (2005)
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.
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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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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Cast
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Bill Murray
Don Johnston -
Jeffrey Wright
Winston -
Sharon Stone
Laura -
Frances Conroy
Dora -
Jessica Lange
Carmen -
Tilda Swinton
Penny -
Julie Delpy
Sherry -
Mark Webber
The Kid -
Chloë Sevigny
Carmen's Assistant -
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Alexis Dziena
Lolita -
Larry Fessenden
Will -
Pell James
Sun Green -
Heather Alicia Simms
Mona -
Brea Frazier
Rita -
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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.
Top CriticMurray 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.
A very gentle and wry outing for Jarmusch and his star.
Completely charming, but ultimately slight.
You can't take your eyes off [Murray], and you leave Broken Flowers hoping he's feeling better -- about life, love, everything.
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.
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.
Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors.
Throbs with compressed emotion
Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.
Minimalist melodrama for older teens and adults only.
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.
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.
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.
The auteur's unbeatable weirdness here mutates into preciosity.
After a career of deadpanning, Murray's impassive performance is still fresh, funny, sympathetic and restrained.
This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react.
Subtle, warm direction from Jim Jarmusch and another Oscar-worthy performance from Bill Murray -- will the Academy just give him a statue, already?
Audience Reviews for Broken Flowers
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- Don Johnston: Couldn't you have rented me a Porsche or some car I might really drive? I'm a stalker in a Taurus.
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- 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.
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