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Broken Flowers: Bill Murray
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Broken Flowers is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. It stars Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, and Mark Webber.
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Broken Flowers is a failed effort to recapture the magic of Lost in Translation. Like Sofia Coppola, writer/ director Jim Jarmusch created Flowers’ main character for Bill Murray and with minimal dialogue, but in this case the absence of conversation falls flat and keeps stalling the flow.
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In Broken Flowers, Murray plays a Don Juan-type character (strangely enough named Don) who has spent his life loving many, many different women. But one day, he gets an anonymous letter in the mail indicating that he has a grown son from a relationship several years ago. So, what was his quiet life becomes a search for the son he never knew he had. With the help of his sleuthing neighbor (Jeffrey Wright), he compiles information about all his past flames during that time in his life. With information from the internet about where they live (including maps to their homes!) Don sets out to solve the mystery. Along the way he visits women played by the likes of Sharon Stone, Frances COnroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton.
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Broken Flowers is Jarmusch's most conventionally entertaining film, but it's still visually rigorous, swimming in pregnant silences, and un-filled-in in a way that's tantalizing. The movie is a haunted meditation on solipsism that's full of extraneous life, that hints at a world elsewhere. Murray is Don Johnston (that's John-ston, as he always has to remind people), a guy who made a pile of money in software but whose hobby was girlfriends, one after another. On the day his latest squeeze (Julie Delpy) decamps because he can't, you know, commit, Don sits watching The Private Life of Don Juan on his widescreen TV on his leather sofa in his huge, soullesss house; and then this aging Don Juan (or is it Don Juan-ston?) opens a letter from an ex of 20 years ago with no return address or postmark. It says Don has a 19-year-old son who has run away to find his father.
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With 'Broken Flowers', staunchly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers one of his most pleasing, accessible pictures. Winner of the 2005 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the film tells the story of Don Johnston (Bill Murray), a man overflowing with wealth but void of emotion. On the day that his most recent girlfriend (Julie Delpy) has given up on him for good, he learns, through an anonymous letter, that he might be the father of a 19-year-old boy. Spurned into action by his wannabe private eye neighbour, Winston (Jeffrey Wright), Don sets off on a personal journey to visit the former partners who may or may not have mothered his child. They include the flighty Laura (Sharon Stone), whose daughter Lolita (Alexis Dziena) certainly lives up to her name; the uptight Dora (Frances Conroy), who has settled into a sterile life with her chipper husband Ron (Christopher McDonald); the strangely distant Carmen (Jessica Lange), who makes a living as an Animal Communicator and, finally, Penny (Tilda Swinton), a hard-edged biker who is the least happiest to see Don. Each confrontation leaves Don feeling more lost than the last, spinning him into an even greater state of apathetic confusion.
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Jim Jarmusch’s latest, Broken Flowers stars Bill Murray, as Don Johnston – no not THAT Don Johnson. Don has been a Don Juan all his life - one woman after another. But when his latest, Sherry, (JULIE DELPY) walks out on him, he seems strangely resigned. Then he gets an anonymous letter from one of the women he'd known 20 years earlier, telling him he has a 20-year-old son.
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