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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 11720
Released: January 21, 2003 |
| Our Price: $3.98 |
| Used Price: $3.50 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Director Diane Keaton brings a tender touch to Wildflower, a Lifetime cable-TV movie showcasing early-career excellence from Reese Witherspoon and Patricia Arquette. Witherspoon's big-screen debut in The Man in the Moon had premiered shortly before this movie's original broadcast in 1991, and a year earlier, Arquette had starred in a Keaton-directed CBS Schoolbreak Special, The Boy with the Crazy Brother. These rising talents are well served by Sara Flanigan's teleplay, closely adapted from her popular juvenile novel Alice. Set in the mid-1930s, the story follows two compassionate teens (Witherspoon, William McNamara) who discover and essentially adopt a partially deaf epileptic (Arquette) who'd been locked away by her psychotically abusive father. Beau Bridges and Susan Blakely provide different parental perspectives, and while Keaton doesn't always avoid Flanigan's tear-jerking sentiment, she handles it with delicate grace. Aiding her are a gifted cast and the fine cinematography of Janusz Kaminski, who would soon begin an enduring collaboration with Steven Spielberg. --Jeff Shannon
Wildflower Reviews:
One of my all time favorites. 
2008-10-06 - I loved this movie when it first came out on Lifetime. I was so excited when I saw that Amazon had it. This is a great movie.
DAzling!
2008-09-18 - I saw this movie over 15 years ago and missed it! I am so happy it has been put on DVD and is available to purchase now!
Wildflower
2008-07-05 - Touching story that pulls you along in a different time period. This story and the actors are wonderful! Truely a classic keep for me!
Wildflower deviates wildly from novel 
2008-06-08 - Wildflower is the story of a young girl named Alice who lives in north Georgia in the mid 1930s. She's deaf and suffers from epilepsy because her mother had "the fever" when she carried Alice -- but doesn't understand epilepsy and thinks her daughter is "tetched by the devil".
Ellie and her older brother, Sammy, discover Alice locked in a shed one day, and are horrified to realize she lives in the shed.
They befriend Alice and slowly teach her how to be, as Alice says, "a real girl".
The story is wonderful and heartwarming.
If you have read the novel by Sara Flanigan, however, I don't recommend the film. Although Diane Keaton did a wonderful job, the cast is fabulous, and Sara Flanigan did the telepay, it simply doesn't live up to the book.
Understandably, there are many cases where the movie just isn't as good as the film, but there is far too much left out or changed to make this beautiful novel a beautiful film. I never saw it on television and waited years for it to be released so I could finally see it. I loved the book SO much. I'm glad I only had to pay a few dollars for the DVD, however, because I was incredibly disappointed with the film.
I do think, however, that if you haven't read the book, you will enjoy the film.
Wildflower
2007-11-26 - This is a fantastic movie. As we have had it for years on VHS and some one had borrowed it and recoreded over it and ruined the picture. So we finally found the movie on DVD and are very grateful, because it is a very thouht provoking and beautiful movie. Both my husband and I Love it very much. Now we can treasure it forever on DVD. Thanks again for having it for sale on your sire. And to all who watch it, "Take the time to really watch it and ENJOY"! The Widmer's from Myrtle Creek Oregon
