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This has bugged me since I saw the movie. Why was the movie called 'The Brothers Bloom'?

The brothers are Stephen and Bloom. We are never given their last names and the credits don't show a last name. I would doubt that their last name is Bloom. That would have resulted in 'The Bloom Brothers' though.

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"Bloom" is also a verb, which might mean they went for an admittedly weak pun in the title.

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I assumed that with them being orphans, perhaps Bloom never had a first name (i.e. he was orphaned as an infant and was just Baby Bloom) so he always went by his last name.

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