Harrison's Flowers

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Harrison's Flowers

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Released Mar 15, 2002

2h 10m

Drama

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is missing on assignment and presumed dead in a far-off country. Refusing to accept this, his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) embarks on a perilous journey to find him and bring him home. Armed with a camera, her determination and a group of Harrison's peers, Sarah enters a world that shocks her to her core.

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Critics Consensus

Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.

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David Rooney

Variety

Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war.

Jun 5, 2008

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Manohla Dargis

L.A. Weekly

Visceral, unrelenting, affecting and, as often, exasperating.

Jan 20, 2003

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Loren King

Chicago Tribune

A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 20, 2002

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Here’s a hard-hitting drama that doesn’t shy away from showing the atrocities committed under the tag of “ethnic cleaning.”

Rated: 3/4

Nov 30, 2024

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

The film presents an intense dose of reality -- too intense for some, maybe -- and it leaves us with a bitter aftertaste.

Nov 19, 2008

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

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.

Rated: 61/100

Jul 11, 2007

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This is definitely a revealing movie that shows reality of the happenings created by the Serbian aggression on Croatia. It shows the situation of the aggression over the full overall war.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Saving Photog Harrison. Harrowingly gruesome, perhaps gratuitously so. Yes war is hell, but we knew that.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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The first hour of the film is pointless and boring, the second half is very affecting but because the first half is a waste of time but the time you get into it its over, the war scenes though are first rate it should got started earlier then you would have a classic war film of great strength.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Such an underrated film. Great cast. Good story!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

Such an intriguing movie about a Women Devotion to her Husband "Harrison". when sent on a mission to war torn area as a photogher.Assumed Missing in action his Film is sent back, using this as a clue to link his last where abouts,and local News broadcasting. Harrisons wife goes searching for him. With a compelling gut feeling she just can't let it go. On the way she meets friends,see's death first hand, and intercepts near death herself. "A journey of love, conquers all!"

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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A primitive anti serbian, hollywood style piece of propaganda. disgusting and full of lies.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is missing on assignment and presumed dead in a far-off country. Refusing to accept this, his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) embarks on a perilous journey to find him and bring him home. Armed with a camera, her determination and a group of Harrison's peers, Sarah enters a world that shocks her to her core.

Director: Élie Chouraqui
Producer: Élie Chouraqui, Albert Cohen
Screenwriter: Élie Chouraqui, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims, Didier Le Pêcheur
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: 7 Films Cinéma, Canal+, Le Studio Canal +, France 2 Cinema
Rating: R (Gruesome Images|Brief Drug Use|Pervasive Language|Strong War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.8M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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