MacDowell and Brody give emotionally galvanizing performances, but too often Flowers arranges itself on a bier that goes flat.
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03/14/02
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Harrison's Flowers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:41
Rotten:43
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.
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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Reviews for Harrison's Flowers
Top CriticIt's hampered by a Lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth.
03/14/02
Stark and gripping.
03/14/02
Dreary and desiccated...it shunts the larger catastrophe to the side and instead becomes a sudsy marital melodrama.
03/14/02
The Balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman.
03/12/02
Offers a glimpse of what happened in 1991 as Milosovich bulldozed his way into power over the corpses of his enemies.
03/12/02
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03/11/02
While the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times, it's awfully entertaining to watch.
03/06/02
[D]istinguishes itself as an engrossing, moving account of the strength of the human will overcoming the direst of circumstances.
03/05/02
A gripping account of one woman's desperate yet determined search for her photojournalist husband believed by all his colleagues to have died in the Croatian civil war.
03/03/02
Top Critic…it presents a brutal and shocking look at what the civil war in Yugoslavia brought to the country and its people.
02/27/02
Chouraqui earnestly displays the Balkan horrors till we scarcely react any more to the latest deafening detonation or pile-up of bodies.
01/26/02
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