This is a good movie in spurts, but when it doesn't work, it's at important times.
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06/28/02
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 images and performances are gripping enough to override the melodramatic missteps.
04/09/02
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03/19/02
...a solid, well-acted adventure film that wears its condemnation and acceptance of the vagaries of civil war on its sleeve.
03/19/02
It's clearly a slavish imitation of The Killing Fields, but characters are uninvolving and the story far-fetched (even the title is ridiculous).
03/18/02
This is a very good film, and it heralds an emerging directorial talent.
03/18/02
Like Black Hawk Down, Harrison's Flowers left me with mixed feelings. Will people want to experience the horrors of war without interesting characters?
03/18/02
MacDowell ... gives give a solid, anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done.
03/17/02
one of those coulda, woulda, shoulda films that frustrates with its unrealized potential
03/16/02
Harrison's Flowers puts its heart in the right place, but its brains are in no particular place at all.
03/15/02
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?
03/15/02
Because of [MacDowell], the film is moving, if not up to the standards of similar fare such as Under Fire or Welcome to Sarajevo.
03/15/02
Harrison's Flowers is good. It should have been great.
03/15/02
A violent and implausible fairy tale.
03/15/02
Harrison's Flowers' director wisely keeps [Andie] MacDowell quiet for most of the Yugoslavian scenes, leaving [Adrien] Brody to carry the scenes.
03/15/02
It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
03/15/02
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
Remarkable for its power to immerse us in the terror, panic and sheer adrenalized rush of the photojournalist's existence.
03/15/02
Given the unrelenting onslaught of grimly realistic action and sickening violence, Sarah's quest starts to seem pretty insignificant.
03/15/02
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