Broken Flowers

Don't you love it when you can see a movie and it helps you evaluate where you are in your life?

Broken Flowers is a terrific movie in what it leaves to your imagination. This is hard to write, it really is. Usually I like to say nearly nothing about plot points or much about a movie itself and just write about how it effects me as a moviegoer. I think I can do a nutshell telling and not ruin anything.

A man at the tail end of another broken relationship gets a mysterious letter that says he is the father of a 19 year old son who is asking about him. This leads to a oddessey of self discovery as he visits four candidates for the mother.

Bill Murray is amazing. His career has really turned into a string of introspective characters who explore what life is like when you know the golden years are coming but you aren't ready for them yet.

When you start to look back at your life and try to make sense of where you have been and what's next. What have you accomplished and do you think you were happy?

The familiar dynamic between Murray's character Don Johnston and his neighbor Winston is lively and entertaining and carries the first part of the movie until the trip begins. Broken Flowers features some clever dialogue and some witty performances coaxed to the surface by Jim Jarmusch, veteran indie filmmaker and all around film rebel.

Be careful watching this movie, you might find yourself smack dab in the middle of re-evaluating where you are....like me.