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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   3,145 votes
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Director:
Elie Chouraqui
Writers:
Isabel Ellsen (book)
Elie Chouraqui (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 January 2001 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | War more
Tagline:
Sometimes love is the only proof you need.
Plot:
When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
A Journey into the Journalist's Personal Hell more (79 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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

Quinn Shephard ... Margaux Lloyd
Marie Trintignant ... Cathy
Christian Charmetant ... Jeff

Gerard Butler ... Chris Kumac, photojournalist
Scott Anton ... Cesar Lloyd (as Scott Michael Anton)
Christopher Clarke ... David
Dragan Antonic ... Chetnik
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Les fleurs d'Harrison (France) (subtitle)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong war violence and gruesome images, pervasive language and brief drug use.
Runtime:
130 min | USA:121 min
Country:
France
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Czech Republic more

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Goofs:
Anachronisms: An advertisement for Windows 2000 can be seen in the window of a computer store as Sarah leaves an office building in New York in 1991. more
Quotes:
Marc Stevenson: I saw snipers shooting kids, and then making checkmarks on the wall. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Film Geek (2005) more

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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
A Journey into the Journalist's Personal Hell, 31 January 2003
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Author: nertz from Alaska

Harrison's Flowers is a journey into a journalist's personal hell. While some may feel that the premise of the story is rather lame and confabulated, it serves a purpose. To show the human side of the photo journalists who bring the horrors of the world to those of us who, as they noted in the movie, are just worried about getting a parking ticket.

Too often when we non-journalists see photos of war zones we are horrified and, at the same time, we are dumbfounded as to how someone could be so inhuman and unfeeling as to photograph such graphic examples of man's inhumanity to man. Harrison's Flowers is excellent at showing us that just as a reader we can't stop looking at the horror even though we are revolted, the journalist cannot stop photographing and documenting it even though the human side of them is revolted as well.

As for Andie MacDowell's so-called wooden performance, one must remember that in this film she is seeing her husband's and his colleagues' world through their eyes for the first time. How quickly would any of us be able to break out of our shock-like trance and be totally outraged or emotional if this were the first time we were seeing it? Even the veteran photo journalist portrayed by Brendan Gleeson was paralyzed with shock more than once in the film. Andie MacDowell's character came from such an insulated world that seemingly emotionless shock was the perfect way to portray Sarah, who simply cannot fathom what she sees unfolding around her.

Harrison's Flowers is an excellent portrayal of the Serbo-Croatian hell that descended upon that part of Europe and irreparably tore apart the life of anyone in its path.

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