Broken Flowers
 
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Don Juan Johnston

bypmills1210 Feb 7, 2006
87 Helpfuls 88 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Bill Murray and cast, Jim Jarmusch's story and direction, Frederick Elmes's...
Cons Not for people who like films with happy endings and easy answers
Recommended it? Yes

Don Johnston has just been described as an "over-the-hill Don Juan" by his latest girlfriend. She goes on to say she feels like a mistress in the life of this bachelor, who has retired after making his fortune in the computer business. She leaves him because she feels that neither one of them know... Read full review »

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"Jim Jarmusch's 'Broken Flowers' Is Terminally Funny... Bill Murray Has Never Been Better..." 283 Pageviews...

bysfarmer76 Jul 25, 2007
55 Helpfuls 56 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Julie Delpy, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Sharon Stone; music by Holly...
Cons The ending feels unresolved; the sound quality is not quite the best.
Recommended it? Yes

Broken Flowers (2005), concerns Don Johnston (Murray.) His girlfriend Sherry (Delpy) has dumped him because she wants kids; Don's treated her like a mistress. Alas, Sherry's finally recognized Don prefers his bachelorhood. After Don receives a mysterious letter in a pink envelope, Sherry razzes him... Read full review »

thevoid99
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I'm a Stalker in a Taurus and I'm Trying to Find My Son

bythevoid99 Aug 8, 2005
45 Helpfuls 46 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Jarmusch's Script/Direction, Music, Look, Locations, & Cast notably Murray & Wright.
Cons An Abrupt Ending that Will Annoy Some.
Recommended it? Yes

One of the most celebrated and influential of independent filmmakers, Jim Jarmusch has been known for making films about eccentric outsiders and loners starting with his 1982 student feature Permanent Vacation and his 1984 feature-length debut film Strangers in Paradise that won him the Camera D'or... Read full review »

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Lost in the Life Aquatic with Don Juan

bytrust12345 Aug 28, 2005
39 Helpfuls 40 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Murray, Wright, wan aesthetic, deadpan comedy, music, the pulchritudinous women.
Cons A bit slight; chilly despite efforts to move.
Recommended it? Yes

Bill Murray has been doing the melancholic, aging or over-the-hill surrogate and reluctant father in search of a possible fatherless son/daughter thing, very well of late. Witness him in Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation (2003), Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and now as... Read full review »

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I made it through Broken Flowers without Shoving Popcorn

bybwyckoff1 Aug 17, 2005
39 Helpfuls 40 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Interesting story line-pacing was interesting
Cons the guy next to me was the king of slobs
Recommended it? Yes

I have been consumed by my new job as a custom decorator and thus have not written as much as I would have liked in the past. The movie Broken Flowers has in effect drawn me out of a state of cloistered hiding- so to speak.

Bill Murray ii the main character- he plays the role of an aging,... Read full review »

susidee34
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Broken Flowers - 2005

bysusidee34 Feb 3, 2009
34 Helpfuls 35 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros scenery, auxillary actors
Cons Bill Murray, boring movie
Recommended it? No

Don Johnston, a confirmed bachelor, has been dumped by yet another woman. Although he appears affluent, rich through something he did with computers, he remains alone and friendless except for the family next door, especially Winston. If it hadn’t been for Winston, I’d have blown this CD shortly... Read full review »

jarvococker
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BROKEN FLOWERS--SOMETIMES LIFE BRINGS SOME STRANGE SURPRISES

byjarvococker Aug 6, 2005
31 Helpfuls 32 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Bill Murray's excellent performance; strong support from Jeffrey Wright, Frances...
Cons Finale may be too ambiguous; too many sequences of Murray sitting about communicating...
Recommended it? Yes

"Animals can tell us what they want," a character observes in Jim Jarmusch's new film BROKEN FLOWERS, "but that doesn't mean it's what's best for them."

Whether the animal in question is an observant cat or the aging Don Juan (Bill Murray) at the center of Jarmusch's fine new film, what... Read full review »

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Do Not Look For The Happy Ever After Ending Here!

byMARIEROY Jan 13, 2006
27 Helpfuls 28 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Reflect life's reality at its best
Cons Slow moving at first, requires some patience.
Recommended it? Yes

I just completed writing a book on dating after a certain age, namely for those 50 and beyond. I recently rented this DVD, not having a clue as to what it was about except for what was given in the blurb. I have always enjoyed Bill Murray films. Yet, when I first started watching this particular... Read full review »

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"So This Is It...."

byquidrock Sep 3, 2005
26 Helpfuls 27 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros All of the women's cameos, Winston, the successful detached depressive character...
Cons Script was a little weak, ending is strained.
Recommended it? Yes

Quote from Don Johnston (Bill Murray) "The past is gone, the future is not yet, so this is it."....of course, it illustrates what Jim Jarmusch is trying to convey with this film.

Jarmusch's movie is startling and bold, in a somnolent sort of way. Jarmusch is all about symbolism, and Bill... Read full review »

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Whether, I'm a lover / Wither, I'm a flower: Broken Flowers

byvonschiller Aug 14, 2005
21 Helpfuls 22 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros SAT hot word: rollicking.
Cons SAT hot word: spasmodic.
Recommended it? Yes

Broken Flowers
Directed and written by Jim Jarmusch
Starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, and Frances Conroy
7/10

Endlessly quotable and hilarious in spurts, Broken Flowers reveals in its finale, commented by others on this site as "annoying" or "irritating,"... Read full review »

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