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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 60086
Released: January 21, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An implausible plot doesn't prevent Harrison's Flowers from being a harrowing and moving depiction of the cost of war. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah Lloyd, the wife of a photojournalist reported lost in the 1991 civil war raging between ethnic divisions in the former Yugoslavia. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Sarah flies to Austria and then drives into the heart of the war, where she teams up with other photographers (Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleeson), who help her find a small town where her husband was last seen--while all around them rages one of the most horrific conflicts of the late 20th century. The story is barely credible, but the depiction of the war itself is stunning, and the depiction of the lives of photojournalists--partly thrill-seeking voyeurs, partly truth tellers--is complex and compelling. Though MacDowell isn't a great actress, all the performances are solid, and Brody is outstanding. --Bret Fetzer
Harrison's Flowers Reviews:
Harrison's Flowers is a Touching Film 
2008-06-11 - David Strathairn-Harrison (Delores Claiborne) and Andie MacDowell-Sarah (Four Weddings And A Funeral) star in this touching film about a Prize-winning photojournalist who comes up missing while on a dangerous assignment in war-torn Yugoslavia. One can only admire Sarah's courage as--when Harrison is presumed dead, she goes on a mission, risking her own life in a war ravaged country to find him. This film is filled with drama and suspense, as we see the realities of war and those who fall victim to the tyrany and oppression. Perhaps the most touching element in this story though, is when a shell shocked Harrison--is brought back to his loving family by his flowers his son lovingly tended to in his father's absence. Warning: There are gory scenes involving war injuries, army tanks, guns, and war violence. This movie is not suitable for children, and sensitive individuals. This review applies to the full-length film.
What CNN missed . . . 
2008-03-04 - This 2-hour French production with an American cast is an odd combination of a blithely impossible action plot played against a chilling reality. When a world-famous photographer is reported killed in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, his wife flies off from their comfortable home in Westchester to find him and bring him back alive. The best that can be said about this Hollywood-style storyline is that it provides a reason to accomplish something very different - to portray the ghastly truth of ethnic warfare as it took place in the Balkans in the early 1990s and the role of news photographers who risked their lives to capture it with their cameras.
Plunged into Croatia as Vukovar was being overrun by Serbs, the characters take the audience into a hell where everyone - men, women, children - must kill or be killed. We are witness to atrocities and inhumanities that take the breath away. While war in the movies has often been played for thrill-packed adventure - even anti-war films - this one leaves you with a sense of powerlessness in the face of unimaginable horror. Urban warfare and ethnic cleansing cease being abstract concepts. We see their portrayal with our own eyes, and the efforts of one American woman to retrieve her husband in the midst of it all are dwarfed by comparison. Worth seeing anyway for what CNN missed.
Harrison's Flowers 
2008-02-28 - I only watched this, as Gerard Butler had a very small part. However, I did not like the movie, and the editing could have been better.
balkans movies
2008-01-25 - War footage is uncannny in its reality. They must have gone to post Bosnia war areas to get footage of destruction that they showed. Delivers a powerful reminder of the ugliness of the Bosnian war that happened in the civilized western neighbourhood only 18 years ago.
EVEN MORE DEPRESSING FOR BUTLER FANS 
2007-11-25 - Gerard Butler fans, be warned, he's not in this more than probably 30 seconds, not much more than an extra. The movie itself was depressing, but well acted.
