Broken Flowers

5.00
    Broken Flowers
    2005

    Synopsis

    As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

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    Cast

    • Bill MurrayDon Johnston
    • Julie DelpySherry
    • Heather SimmsMona
    • Brea FrazierRita
    • Jarry FallWinston and Mona's Kid
    • Korka FallWinston and Mona's Kid
    • Saul HollandWinston and Mona's Kid
    • Zakira HollandWinston and Mona's Kid
    • Niles Lee WilsonWinston and Mona's Kid
    • Jeffrey WrightWinston
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      A movie of uncommon sweetness and delight.
    • 90

      Newsweek

      Funny, bittersweet, its understatement yielding surprising depth charges, Broken Flowers is a triumph of close observation and telling details.
    • 90

      The A.V. Club

      Murray and Jarmusch, two modern masters of minimalism, triumphantly join forces in Broken Flowers, a bittersweet tour de force about a wealthy, deeply depressed lothario.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      With elegant restraint the film subtly intimates the wintry dead end-twilight years bereft of love, partner, or vocation-that may be in store for its aged lover man. (Payne's "About Schmidt" did too, when not gorging snidely on idiot Americana.)
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      Broken Flowers may be too low-key for laugh junkies, but Jarmusch fills his sharply observed comedy with wonderful mischief. The mix of humor and heartbreak brings out the best in Murray.
    • 80

      Variety

      Working in his typically idiosyncratic and episodic vein, Jim Jarmusch has nonetheless pitched the film slightly more toward mainstream tastes than usual for him, using excellent thesps in the service of accessible material.
    • 80

      Dallas Observer

      If you're shopping for neatly tied bundles of plot and the rigid arcs of "character development" common to mainstream movies, look elsewhere. Whether he's playing on the road or at home, Jarmusch always throws a lot of off-speed stuff, and that's his glory.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It skips merrily along the surface with its over-the-top vignettes but never seems to arrive at a destination. Nevertheless, the journey is more than half the fun as every actor attacks his role with relish.

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