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03/15/02
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
Reviews for Harrison's Flowers
The rendering of the carnage and the horrors of civil conflict are emotionally stirring, and MacDowell is amazingly effective in the lead role.
03/15/02
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07/21/05
This is a very good film, and it heralds an emerging directorial talent.
03/18/02
The graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn Croatia is uncomfortably timely, relevant, and sickeningly real.
03/14/02
It's a hysterical, schizophrenic mishmash of styles and elements, a gruesome and realistic war film wrapped in a weepy Hallmark card.
03/15/02
The cast fits very convincingly into the nightmarish landscape of a ravaged country.
03/14/02
A violent and implausible fairy tale.
03/15/02
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.
05/27/03
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.
07/11/07
MacDowell and Brody give emotionally galvanizing performances, but too often Flowers arranges itself on a bier that goes flat.
03/14/02
Traveling in Yugoslavia doesn't open MacDowell's well-rested eyes one bit, and the movie's interest in the problems of Yugoslavia is just lip service.
03/14/02
It's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of Sarah and Harrison.
03/15/02
The outcome for Sarah and Harrison starts to feel slightly irrelevant, compared to the awfulness they observe and endure.
03/15/02
When describing an Andie MacDowell movie, the words "gritty" and "harrowing" do not immediately spring to mind.
11/09/03
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