Harrison's Flowers

Pros: Acting, captures the gritty realism of war
Cons: Melodramatic, predictable

The 2002 war drama Harrison's Flowers is based on a novel by the same name, and is dedicated to the 48 journalists who lost their lives in the war zone in Yugoslavia, from 1991-1995. French Director/Screenwriter, Elie Chouraqui brings to life, in ...

Pros: Well-staged scenes of Civil War. The performace of Adrien Brody as Kyle.
Cons: The relationship portrayed by Andie MacDowell and David Strathairn is literally divided by the War.

Several decades ago now, there was a much publicized case, where a press photographer, well-known for his ruthlessness, while covering a disaster, came across a middle-aged woman trapped under debris at the bottom of some steps to a downstairs bar. As...

Pros: None
Cons: Too many.

You have to admire Andie MacDowell. Here is a woman who has taken her great looks and modest acting abilities and vaulted herself into household name status. But unlike humorless, overreaching and preposterous male colleagues, such as Tom Cruise or Kevin...

Pros: Adrien Brody and Brendan Gleeson's strong supporting performances
Cons: Andie MacDowell's portrayal of Sarah, flimsy screenplay, forced direction

The real life kidnapping and subsequent murder of "Wall Street Journal" reporter Daniel Pearl casts a dark, eerie shadow over French director Elie Chouraqui’s first American film, "Harrison’s Flowers."

Set in the early 1990s, when the Balkan...

Pros: The movie portrayed a historical point of view about the conflict in Croatia. Action packed.
Cons: The plot and Sarah's grieving process was unrealistic.

Harrison's Flowers, starring Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, and Adrien Brody. Harrison's Flowers is about a Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist, Harrison Lloyd (played by David Strathairn), who has come to a ...

Pros: With the characters, the audience spends a season in hell.
Cons: Ending is a bit implausible.

Those of us who, choosing to identify with those confronted by a singleminded and overbearing U. S. government, have proclaimed war to be among the worst things, if not actually the worst, humans can inflict on one another have had our faith in this...

Pros: Andie McDowell is easy on the eyes.
Cons: bad acting, ridiculous situation

The horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, complete with so-called ethnic cleansing, are appropriate subject matter for a gripping, dramatic movie. Harrison's Flowers, however, is not that movie. Although it tackles a very serious subject, it does...

Pros: Educational, emotional in terms of the happenings in Yugoslavia.
Cons: Love story lacks luster, unbelievable.

I was merely graduating from High School when this War was going on and even though I vaguely remember talking about it in History class I had no idea what was going on over there. This movie above anything else made me feel sad, in fact I cried quite a b ...