serafinogm Bill Murray's character gets a letter in the mail informing him he has a 19 year old son. His next door bohemian neighbor encourages Bill to go on an ultimately fruitless quest to see if any of his former lovers from 19 years earlier (there were 5 and one had since passed away) were the genesis of the anonymous letter! The visit with Sharon Stones character went well but she clearly wasn't the sender, two visits were uncomfortable and neither of them were candidates either and the final visit went very, very badly (Tilda Swinton's character, who looks remarkably different in every movie I see her in) and she clearly wasn't the genesis of the letter either and in the process of that final visit Bill gets beat up! Actually the final visit was to the grave site of the former lover who had passed away. So we never find out who sent the letter but I guess that was the annoying point! At any rate it's a good watch and I thoroughly recommend the film!

randy filkirk Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Once you understand that part you'll go into this one hour and forty five minute sleepover film prepared. Do not expect anything meaningful, instead, expect a pick up and put down book with audio type film. I recently have been discovering jazz, and what took me to this film was Mulatu Astatki and his style of jazz. Upon hearing it in a film i realised, "someone else knows this music", and felt not alone anymore. The high point of the film is many things, but nothing. As age creeps up on you, don't you too sit there, not moving, staring into nothingness, expressionless?, i do, maybe i can also feel, "Not Alone" on that one. There were many directions this film could have taken, none of them happened, and yet i came away from this film thinking, "am i better person for having watched this"?. Well, "am i"?. To be honest, i really cannot answer that one,, no matter how long i sit motionless pondering, maybe we should all sit motionless pondering whilst this film is playing and wonder to ourselves.Do go away and think about it, maybe come back and let me know how you get on. I can neither recommend or trash this film, instead i'll just say one thing....oh wait, now it'll come to me if i sit here long enough, won't it?As an aside, is it only me who can see any resemblance of Winston to Astatki?,

pascaloetterli I recently watched "Night on Earth" by Director Jim Jarmusch. Besides being a typical Arthaus movie, I didn't know, what to write about it and decided to give it a rewatch. "Broken Flowers" made it easier for me and I really liked it. Bill Murray is perfect in the role of a notorious womanizer trying to find out which one of his former partners wrote him a letter that she had a son with him. He's going for a search in the whole country, which makes this movie looking like a different kind of roadmovie. The women are played by great actresses such as Delpy, Lange, Stone, Conroy and Sevigny. The story is very straightforward, it all comes down to the interaction between Don and the women. It's at once comedy and drama, but nothing emotionally strong. To me it had something of a roadmovie and had also that "Up in the Air" travelling feeling. It's a fine film with some great moments but likewise it was not outstanding either. Jim Jarmusch is loved by the female audience and this movies shows why: he understands them well and his female characters are interesting. He's like the American Almodovar. You must like this kind of movie-making and most importantly: you must like Bill Murray.

bobbyhollywood First, a good job was done by all involved in this work. I missed the first fifteen minutes of this film, and had to guess as to why Mr. Johnston was searching.Not watching Every detail, I just went with the actors, and thoroughly enjoyed it, all but the last. Having read the description of this movie, only a minute or two ago, I now know why things ended as they did - sounds logical, although I would have given Mr. Johnston a different reason to go searching, which has been done, but I feel Bill Murray could have carried it away with flowers.One scene truly surprised me, and it was well done. I would have to say, even though I was wrong in my idea of why Mr. Johnston was searching, I did enjoy the movie, and as I have said, a good job was done by all.Always looking forward to Bill Murray's work.