Fantastic war scenes, otherwise, nah
Added 3/12/2010
If you can get through the gloppy first 30 minutes of this war time love story, you will reach the best of this film: extremely realistic battle scenes of the Serb-Croatian conflict in 1991. The graphic photography is some of the best of modern war movie-making I've ever seen. The big problem is the absurd plot: the wife of a Newsweek photographer trundles off to Serbia to track down her supposedly dead hubby. She teams up with his colleagues as they look, amid death at any moment. How did Adrian Brody keep his goatee so perfect when no one else is shaving, I wondered? Just marvel at the war footage and try to ignore Andie MacDowell's wooden acting.
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Entertaining
Added 2/7/2010
Harrison's Flowers is an interesting story. The actors are believeable esp. the war scenes. The DVD was excellent and arrived promptly as always.
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Harrison"s Flowers
Added 6/15/2009
I ordered this DVD of Harrison's Flowers. Then found out it was discontinued. sellers need to check their inventory to make sure they have it.
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Harrison's Flowers is a Touching Film
Added 6/11/2008
David Strathairn-Harrison (Delores Claiborne) and Andie MacDowell-Sarah (Four Weddings And A Funeral) star in this touching film about a Prize-winning photojournalist who comes up missing while on a dangerous assignment in war-torn Yugoslavia. One can only admire Sarah's courage as--when Harrison is presumed dead, she goes on a mission, risking her own life in a war ravaged country to find him. This film is filled with drama and suspense, as we see the realities of war and those who fall victim to the tyrany and oppression. Perhaps the most touching element in this story though, is when a shell shocked Harrison--is brought back to his loving family by his flowers his son lovingly tended to in his father's absence. Warning: There are gory scenes involving war injuries, army tanks, guns, and war violence. This movie is not suitable for children, and sensitive individuals. This review applies to the full-length film.
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What CNN missed . . .
Added 3/4/2008
This 2-hour French production with an American cast is an odd combination of a blithely impossible action plot played against a chilling reality. When a world-famous photographer is reported killed in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, his wife flies off from their comfortable home in Westchester to find him and bring him back alive. The best that can be said about this Hollywood-style storyline is that it provides a reason to accomplish something very different - to portray the ghastly truth of ethnic warfare as it took place in the Balkans in the early 1990s and the role of news photographers who risked their lives to capture it with their cameras.
Plunged into Croatia as Vukovar was being overrun by Serbs, the characters take the audience into a hell where everyone - men, women, children - must kill or be killed. We are witness to atrocities and inhumanities that take the breath away. While war in the movies has often been played for thrill-packed adventure - even anti-war films - this one leaves you with a sense of powerlessness in the face of unimaginable horror. Urban warfare and ethnic cleansing cease being abstract concepts. We see their portrayal with our own eyes, and the efforts of one American woman to retrieve her husband in the midst of it all are dwarfed by comparison. Worth seeing anyway for what CNN missed.
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Fantastic war scenes, otherwise, nah
Added 3/12/2010
If you can get through the gloppy first 30 minutes of this war time love story, you will reach the best of this film: extremely realistic battle scenes of the Serb-Croatian conflict in 1991. The graphic photography is some of the best of modern war movie-making I've ever seen. The big problem is the absurd plot: the wife of a Newsweek photographer trundles off to Serbia to track down her supposedly dead hubby. She teams up with his colleagues as they look, amid death at any moment. How did Adrian Brody keep his goatee so perfect when no one else is shaving, I wondered? Just marvel at the war footage and try to ignore Andie MacDowell's wooden acting.
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Entertaining
Added 2/7/2010
Harrison's Flowers is an interesting story. The actors are believeable esp. the war scenes. The DVD was excellent and arrived promptly as always.
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Harrison"s Flowers
Added 6/15/2009
I ordered this DVD of Harrison's Flowers. Then found out it was discontinued. sellers need to check their inventory to make sure they have it.
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