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Harrison's Flowers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:11
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.
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.... [More]
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Gerard Butler, Adrien Brody
Director: Elie Chouraqui
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01/18/03
Top CriticThe movie too often works against itself, pitting an increasingly implausible story with Chouraqui's hard-core realism.
08/09/02
Top CriticA powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war.
07/20/02
Top CriticDirector Elie Chouraqui, who co-wrote the script, catches the chaotic horror of war, but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera?
03/15/02
Top CriticIt's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
03/15/02
Top CriticIt's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of Sarah and Harrison.
03/15/02
Top CriticRemarkable for its power to immerse us in the terror, panic and sheer adrenalized rush of the photojournalist's existence.
03/15/02
Top CriticSplit between the bloody relentlessness of the war scenes and the verging-on-schmaltz sentiment on the home front.
03/15/02
Top CriticShatteringly realistic action sequences lift this fictionalized treatment of the Serbian-Croatian fighting notches above its sentimental domestic framing device.
03/15/02
Top CriticHogwash American sentimentality in a film that shows raped children and brutish soldiers is both disorienting and troubling.
03/15/02
Top CriticThe script's judgment and sense of weight is way, way off.
03/15/02
Top CriticEnds up wilting in the cold light of recent and real heroism, which may not be this photogenic but has the advantage of being incredible and true.
03/15/02
Top CriticIt uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color.
03/15/02
Top CriticThe scenes of carnage are so well-staged and convincing that they make the movie's story even harder to believe.
03/15/02
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03/15/02
Top CriticWe may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the Balkans conflict.
03/15/02
Top CriticIt's basically a not entirely believable soap opera that would not be out of place on Lifetime if some of the violence were toned down.
03/15/02
Top CriticIt's a hysterical, schizophrenic mishmash of styles and elements, a gruesome and realistic war film wrapped in a weepy Hallmark card.
03/15/02
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