Harrison's Flowers Movie Review 2002

Sometimes goopy, sometimes harrowing story of a naive woman searching for her missing husband. Newsweek photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (Strathairn) promises wife Sarah (MacDowell) that his '91 assignment to Yugoslavia (at the beginning of the Balkan conflict) will be his last. Maybe in more ways than one, since he's reported missing, which Sarah doesn't believe. So she's takes off for Croatia and promptly gets a hard lesson in the confusion of war. Fellow correspondents Kyle (Brody), Stevenson (Gleeson), and Yeager (Koteas) agree to help Sarah even though they think she's nuts. Watch the guys, particularly Brody, since all MacDowell has to do is alternate between noble, frightened, and stubborn.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 122 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Missing Persons, Bosnia, Front Page, Shutterbugs, Marriage

Screenplay

Elie Chouraqui, Didier Le Pecheur, Isabel Ellsen

Cast

Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Alun Armstrong, Caroline Goodall, Diane Baker, Gerard Butler, Marie Trintignant

Cinematography

Nicola Pecorini

Director

Elie Chouraqui

Music

Cliff Eidelman

Other

Guillaume Sciama, Jacques Witta, Martin Martinec, Mimi Lempicka, Giantito Burchiellaro

Producer

Albert J. Cohen, Elie Chouraqui, StudioCanal, France 2 Cinema, 7 Films Cinema, Universal Focus