Broken Flowers
Short description
Don Johnston is an aging bachelor whose life of casual romances has left him alone. After his latest girlfriend, Sherry, walks out on him, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover telling him he fathered a son, now nineteen, who may be trying to find him. With encouragement from Winston, his neighbor and an amateur detective, Don sets out to track down the women he was involved with two decades earlier, hoping to learn which of them wrote the letter.
Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed the film, the ninth of the fourteen features he has directed, following Coffee and Cigarettes and preceding The Limits of Control. Bill Murray plays Don, with Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Frances Conroy and Alexis Dziena among the women he visits, part of a credited cast of thirty-one.
Made for about ten million dollars, the film took roughly forty-seven million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7.1 rating from around 110,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.9 from a much smaller base of about 1,500. A critics' rating of 7.8 from 189 reviews is slightly higher than those audience scores. Combining comedy, drama, mystery and romance, the film follows Don's reluctant journey through his own past, shot in the United States with French production involvement.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the end of the film, a car passes by Don, from which a young man carefully examines him. The young man is played by Bill Murray's son, Homer.
- According to Bill Murray (who played Don Johnston), after filming was completed, he seriously considered ending his acting career, believing that he could never play anyone better.
- Jim Jarmusch wrote the role of Don Johnston specifically for Bill Murray, whom he admires. He had initially planned to feature Bill in another film, but changed his plans.
- Jarmusch dedicated the film to the late French film director Jean Eustache.
- Jim Jarmusch asked the four actresses playing the main roles to write a version of the letter in the pink envelope from the perspective of their characters, and used excerpts from all four versions in the film.
- Jim Jarmusch's project was originally titled "Dead Flowers".
- Jim Jarmusch spent two and a half weeks writing the film's screenplay.
- The jazz composition "Yedermo Sew," which continuously accompanies Don Johnston during his odyssey, is a minor version of Horace Silver's "Song For My Father."
- Bill Murray only agreed to star in the film on the condition that the shooting location be within an hour's drive of his home in New York State. Jarmusch agreed, and filming took place either in New York City itself or in northern New Jersey.
- The project was initially titled “Dead Flowers”.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
