Broken Flowers

The day doesn't start off well for Don Johnston (Bill Murray). First, he is left by his much younger girlfriend Sherry (Julie Delpy), and then a pink letter arrives at his home - not a love note, but a late notice regarding an earlier liaison of the graying Don Juan: he has a now 19-year-old son who may soon come to visit him, threatens the anonymous writer. Thus, Don reluctantly embarks on a ridiculous journey into his past, armed with pink flowers. What complicates the endeavor is the fact that there are not one, but four women in four different cities who could be the mother of the unknown son.

In this charmingly deadpan tragicomedy based on an idea by Bill Raden and Sara Driver, producer, director, and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch sends the brilliant Bill Murray on an absurdly comedic road trip through past romances, portrayed by Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Francis Conroy, and Tilda Swinton. A masterpiece full of lightness, tender poetry, and subtle humor, it competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize.