Harrison's Flowers (2002)
49 %
Reviews Counted: 83 Fresh: 41 Rotten:42 Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus:
Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 15, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $1,621,845
Synopsis: Andie MacDowell is phenomenal as Sarah Lloyd, a devoted wife and mother who goes to former Yugoslavia to find her husband Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) when he disappears and is assumed dead. Sarah and Harrison share a deep love and understanding, but Harrison, a Pulitzer Prize-winning... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Gerard Butler, Adrien Brody, Marie Trintignant
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Screenwriter: Elie Chouraqui, Michael Katims, Isabel Ellsen
Producer: Albert J. Cohen
Composer: Bruno Coulais, Pascal Obispo
Screenwriter: Elie Chouraqui, Michael Katims, Isabel Ellsen
Producer: Albert J. Cohen
Composer: Bruno Coulais, Pascal Obispo
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06/05/08
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Built on a foundation of melodrama and implausible coincidence, Harrison's Flowers is a movie that looks far better on paper than it does onscreen.
07/11/07
A stronger actress, say Michelle Pfeiffer or Cate Blanchette, would have given this political melodrama more credibility and power, but Andie MacDowell is poorly cast and she seems lost.
10/30/06
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07/21/05
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02/01/04
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When describing an Andie MacDowell movie, the words "gritty" and "harrowing" do not immediately spring to mind.
11/09/03
Lacking gravitas, MacDowell is a placeholder for grief, and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel. Leave these Flowers unpicked -- they’re dead on the vine.
05/27/03
Hope, desperation and the ugliness of ethnic cleansing intersect elegantly in director Elie Chouraqui's intense retelling of the 1991 Croatian-Serbian conflict in Yugoslavia.
05/20/03
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01/18/03
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Utterly predictable and idiotically scripted by writer/director Elie Chouraqui.
10/21/02
Ultimately, Sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic, and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness.
10/15/02
This story of a determined woman’s courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments.
08/27/02
The movie too often works against itself, pitting an increasingly implausible story with Chouraqui's hard-core realism.
08/09/02
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This is a good movie in spurts, but when it doesn't work, it's at important times.
06/28/02
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