Harrison's Flowers

Harrison's Flowers (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
San Sebastian International Film Festival

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
126 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Elie Chouraqui

Written By:
Isabel Ellsen (book)
Elie Chouraqui (screenplay) ...

Actors:
Andie MacDowell ..... Sarah Lloyd
Elias Koteas ..... Yeager Pollack
Brendan Gleeson ..... Marc Stevenson
Adrien Brody ..... Kyle Morris
David Strathairn ..... Harrison Lloyd
Alun Armstrong ..... Samuel Brubeck
Caroline Goodall ..... Johanna Pollack
Diane Baker ..... Mary Francis
Marie Trintignant ..... Cathy
Christian Charmetant ..... Jeff
Gerard Butler ..... Chris Kumac, photojournalist
Scott Anton ..... Cesar Lloyd (as Scott Michael Anton)
Marie-Béatrice Bernert ..... Austrian Woman
Christopher Clarke ..... David
Dragan Antonic ..... Chetnik

Synopsis:

French director Elie Chouraqui adapts the novel of the same name into this drama, that, although set in 1991, became tragically topical in the weeks before its release due to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a photo editor for Newsweek and the happily married wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn). Harrison has been reconsidering his career of covering the world's war zone 'hot spots' in order to spend more time with his family, and is accused by his colleague, Kyle (Adrien Brody), of playing it too safe in his risky profession. Harrison elects to accept one more combat assignment to cover the simmering tensions in Croatia, a conflict that quickly erupts into a full-scale, genocidal Civil War. Informed that Harrison is believed to have been killed in the fighting, Sarah refuses to accept her husband's death and becomes convinced that she's seen him, alive, in a news broadcast. She travels to Croatia on a quest to find him, and is eventually aided by Kyle, as well as two of Harrison's other colleagues, Yeager (Elias Koteas) and Stevenson (Brendan Gleeson). The group, armed with cameras instead of weapons, witnesses the horrors and atrocities unfolding in the region, while tracing the elusive path of Harrison, who may well be dead already.

Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him. She's helped immensely by the photo-journalists Eric Kyle and Marc Stevenson that she runs into over there; together, they're determined to make it through the chaotic landscape to Vukovar, which is not only the nexus of the war but where she believes Harrison is located. Meanwhile, Harrison's son Cesar is looking after his father's prized greenhouse, keeping hope, and flowers, alive.

Immersing herself into a world she never fathomed, Sarah embarks on a perilous journey to find Harrison, her husband, colleague and father of their two children. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist is missing on an assignment in a country far, far from home and is presumed dead. But it is Sarah who leaves others in disbelief, hell-bent in her pursuit to find Harrison, dead or alive. And life, as Sarah knew it, suddenly becomes unreal.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.