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NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,621,845
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CONSENSUS
Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.
CAST & CREW
Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Gerard Butler
Directed by Elie Chouraqui
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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...
MPAA RATING
R, strong war violence and gruesome images, pervasive language, and brief drug use
RUNTIME
2 hours, 2 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 15, 2002
Video: Jan 21, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Universal Focus
GENRE
Dramas, Kidnapping And Missing Persons, War, Murder, Kidnapping
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Harrison's Flowers Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "This harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
 "Swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress Andie MacDowell."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"This is a good movie in spurts, but when it doesn't work, it's at important times."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"This story of a determined woman’s courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Stark and gripping."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"While we want MacDowell's character to retrieve her husband, we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Lacking gravitas, MacDowell is a placeholder for grief, and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel. Leave these Flowers unpicked -- they’re dead on the vine."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"MacDowell ... gives give a solid, anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"While the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times, it's awfully entertaining to watch."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"Somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids, travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world, don fatigues and become G.I. Jane."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"We just don't really care too much about this love story. In that setting, their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
"Harrison's Flowers puts its heart in the right place, but its brains are in no particular place at all."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it, though Chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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"A stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity, but to help us clearly see the world of our making."
-- Michael Tunison, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high, even as the strafings blend together."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Dreary and desiccated...it shunts the larger catastrophe to the side
and instead becomes a sudsy marital melodrama.
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-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"...overly melodramatic..."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Not everything in the film works, including its somewhat convenient ending."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"It's hampered by a Lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"This is a very good film, and it heralds an emerging directorial talent."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"What works best in the movie is its realistic approach to the goings-on within the battle zone."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY
"Ultimately, Sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic, and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness."
-- Margaret A. McGurk, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
"This movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one, but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it."
-- Holly McClure, CROSSWALK.COM MOVIES
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ROTTEN 42%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"Chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing.'"
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The Balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman."
-- Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE
"Director 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?"
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"We may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the Balkans conflict."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Shatteringly realistic action sequences lift this fictionalized treatment of the Serbian-Croatian fighting notches above its sentimental domestic framing device."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"The script's judgment and sense of weight is way, way off."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"The cast fits very convincingly into the nightmarish landscape of a ravaged country."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"It uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"MacDowell, whose wifty Southern charm has anchored lighter affairs ... brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"It's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of Sarah and Harrison."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
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"The graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn Croatia is uncomfortably timely, relevant, and sickeningly real."
-- Adele Marley, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Harrison's Flowers" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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