Broken Flowers
When his latest girlfriend leaves him, retired computer magnate Don Johnston has no greater ambition than to sit around the house. But then he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him...
14 October 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
20 April 1949, Cloquet, Minnesota, USA
23 March 1963, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
8 July 1984, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1955, New York City, New York, USA
19 July 1980, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
13 November 1953, Monroe, Georgia, USA
October 05, 2008
Funny, disciplined, and acted with great skill and warmth.
August 12, 2005
Completely charming, but ultimately slight.
August 16, 2007
The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all.
November 07, 2012
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.
September 26, 2005
There's a real poignancy in watching Murray's emotional chill thaw from the heat generated by even the idea of romance, or at least its more libidinous evil twin, lust.
September 26, 2009
Insightful, entertaining, and a worthy addition to the filmography of one of America's more interesting modern directors.
August 12, 2005
You can't take your eyes off [Murray], and you leave Broken Flowers hoping he's feeling better -- about life, love, everything.
September 05, 2009
Throbs with compressed emotion
September 16, 2005
A very gentle and wry outing for Jarmusch and his star.
April 29, 2009
Murray's performance is a highlight in a very entertaining dramedy.
December 29, 2015
Murray shows us that what was behind his early-period jaded-hipster shtick was a melancholy and fearful man.
December 09, 2005
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.
