Broken Flowers vs Paper Towns

Broken Flowers has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 6.2/10 for Paper Towns). Broken Flowers is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 1h 49m. Broken Flowers is the older of the two (2005 against 2015). Both are drama, mystery, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Broken Flowers posterBroken Flowers2005 VS Paper Towns posterPaper Towns2015
Broken FlowersPaper Towns
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 6.2/10
Year20052015
Length1h 46m1h 49m
GenresComedy, Drama, Mystery, RomanceDrama, Mystery, Romance
Country––
DirectorJim JarmuschJake Schreier
Main castChris Bauer, Jeffrey Wright, Frances Conroy, Sharon Stone, Chloë SevignyJaz Sinclair, Cara Delevingne, Cara Buono, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith

Synopsis

Broken Flowers

Introverted Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor motivates Don to embark on a cross-country search for his past flames seeking answers.

Paper Towns

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are…

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