Broken Flowers

A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to ...more

By this point in his career, Bill Murray had become remarkably adept at playing characters who use coldness and deadpan humor to keep the world at bay, while offering glimpses of the pain underneath the mask of indifference. In Lost in Translation and his collaborations with Wes Anderson, the characters Murray played ended up revealing themselves in small physical gestures, vocal tics, or in subtle facial expressions. This ability to invest a seemingly emotionally dead person with sudden depth ...more