Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 08/05/2005(USA
Release Date: 01/03/2006
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this
comedy drama from director
Jim Jarmusch.
Don Johnston (
Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to shrewd investments in computers (though he doesn't use one himself). After being given his walking papers by his latest girlfriend,
Sherry (
Julie Delpy),
Don receives an anonymous letter informing him he fathered a son 19 years ago, and that the boy wants to find his dad. Not sure what to do,
Don shows the note to
Winston (
Jeffrey Wright), a neighbor who fancies himself an amateur detective. With
Winston's help,
Don narrows the list of possible mothers down to four women, and with a mixture of reluctance and resigned determination he sets out to find them. Armed with a CD of traveling music from
Winston,
Don pays unannounced visits to
Laura (
Sharon Stone), an oversexed widow with a libidinous teenage daughter (
Alexis Dziena);
Dora (
Frances Conroy), a stuffy real estate agent;
Penny (
Tilda Swinton), an aging biker with no happy memories of
Don; and
Carmen (
Jessica Lange), a self-styled analyst for pets whose outward eccentricity disguises a firm inner stability.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
