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Harrison's Flowers

R Released Mar 15, 2002 2h 10m Drama List
49% Tomatometer 86 Reviews 76% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is missing on assignment and presumed dead in a far-off country. Refusing to accept this, his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) embarks on a perilous journey to find him and bring him home. Armed with a camera, her determination and a group of Harrison's peers, Sarah enters a world that shocks her to her core. Read More Read Less
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Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.

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David Rooney Variety Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war. Jun 5, 2008 Full Review Manohla Dargis L.A. Weekly Visceral, unrelenting, affecting and, as often, exasperating. Jan 20, 2003 Full Review Loren King Chicago Tribune A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war. Rated: 3/4 Jul 20, 2002 Full Review MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher The film presents an intense dose of reality -- too intense for some, maybe -- and it leaves us with a bitter aftertaste. Nov 19, 2008 Full Review Brian Webster Apollo Guide 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. Rated: 61/100 Jul 11, 2007 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 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. Rated: C Oct 30, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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Maya B Excellent, a must see. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/18/22 Full Review Audience Member This is definitely a revealing movie that shows reality of the happenings created by the Serbian aggression on Croatia. It shows the situation of the aggression over the full overall war. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Saving Photog Harrison. Harrowingly gruesome, perhaps gratuitously so. Yes war is hell, but we knew that. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member The first hour of the film is pointless and boring, the second half is very affecting but because the first half is a waste of time but the time you get into it its over, the war scenes though are first rate it should got started earlier then you would have a classic war film of great strength. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Such an underrated film. Great cast. Good story! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Such an intriguing movie about a Women Devotion to her Husband "Harrison". when sent on a mission to war torn area as a photogher.Assumed Missing in action his Film is sent back, using this as a clue to link his last where abouts,and local News broadcasting. Harrisons wife goes searching for him. With a compelling gut feeling she just can't let it go. On the way she meets friends,see's death first hand, and intercepts near death herself. "A journey of love, conquers all!" Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is missing on assignment and presumed dead in a far-off country. Refusing to accept this, his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) embarks on a perilous journey to find him and bring him home. Armed with a camera, her determination and a group of Harrison's peers, Sarah enters a world that shocks her to her core.
Director
Élie Chouraqui
Producer
Élie Chouraqui, Albert Cohen
Screenwriter
Élie Chouraqui, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims, Didier Le Pêcheur
Distributor
Universal Focus
Production Co
Le Studio Canal +, France 2 Cinema
Rating
R (Gruesome Images|Brief Drug Use|Pervasive Language|Strong War Violence)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 15, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.8M
Runtime
2h 10m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)