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Article: Broken Flowers.(Video Recording Review)
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- Catholic New Times
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- October 23, 2005
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Broken Flowers, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone and Jessica Lange, 106 mins. (abridged)
Broken Flowers starts out looking contrived and sentimental. Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, an over-the-hill Don Juan, who receives an anonymous note, supposedly from an old girlfriend, asserting that she gave birth to his son 19 years previously. The shocker is that the young man may come calling on his dad.
A friendly neighbour Winston. (Jeffrey Wright). with a hokey penchant for mysteries, pounces on the letter as a riddle to be solved. He plans a trip for Don to check out his old girlfriends to see which ...