Broken Flowers is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. It stars Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, and Mark Webber.
It was filmed on location in Rockland County and Westchester County, New York, as well as in New Jersey.
The film is dedicated to French director Jean Eustache. In an interview, Jarmusch said he felt close to Eustache for his commitment to making films in a unique and independent fashion.
Tagline: Sometimes life brings some strange surprises.
The soundtrack to the film features an eclectic mix of music, chiefly using instrumentals by Ethiopian jazz artist Mulatu Astatke as the main score, mixed with garage rock (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Greenhornes), stoner metal (Sleep), soul (Marvin Gaye), rocksteady reggae (The Tennors), classical (Gabriel Fauré's Requiem) and easy-listening pop music (Holly Golightly).