Bill Murray names the only perfect movie of his career

Bill Murray has been in more than a few classic movies, but there's only one that the comedy legend calls cinematic perfection.

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Film » Cutting Room Floor

Sat 5 April 2025 17:15, UK

Whether cinematic perfection can be achieved is a debate that remains entirely down to personal preference. Some folks will die on the hill claiming their favourite film has absolutely no flaws, while others will be able to pick holes in anything. However, Bill Murray thinks he did it, but only once.

The Saturday Night Live veteran has evolved into a polarising presence in Hollywood by virtue of being himself. On one hand, the various stories of Murray showing up in random places, doing random things, and making himself virtually impossible to reach without jumping through a series of hoops have endeared him to millions as an eccentric icon.

On the other, he seems like he might be a bit of a dick. As the old saying goes, ‘If you ran into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, then you’re the asshole’. Based on how many former colleagues have come forward with their tales of woe from working with Murray, his career has been defined just as much by off-camera shithousery as it has onscreen excellence.

He’s starred in cult favourites, genuine classics, box office sensations, and underrated gems like Ghostbusters, Stripes, Caddyshack, Tootsie, Lost in Translation, Scrooged, What About Bob?, Kingpin, The Royal Tenenbaums, and countless more, but Murray wouldn’t call any of those films perfect. In fact, with over 100 credits to his name, only one picture fits the bill.

“I thought the movie Broken Flowers, that Jim Jarmusch directed, I didn’t think I could do better than that,” he told Hot Ones. “I thought that was sort of a perfect movie. It really did happen. So everything I had to do, I knew how to do. And things that I hadn’t done before, I was able to live. And because it was all happening, really truly happening to me, it came across as a performance.”

Murray only agreed to headline the film if Jarmusch shot the entire thing on locations he could reach from his home in an hour or less, terms the filmmaker was happy to agree to as long as it convinced the actor to play an ageing lothario who sets out on a mission to reconnect with several former flames after receiving a letter informing him he’s got a teenage son he never knew about.

Not only that, but Murray admitted he contemplated retiring from acting altogether after seeing Broken Flowers in its finished form and being cursed with the realisation that he may never be able to make anything better. Two decades later, his opinion still hasn’t changed, with the Academy Award nominee holding it up as the only perfect movie he’s made in a career that’s 50 years deep.

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