White Oleander PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 11, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alison Lohman & Michelle Pfeiffer | |
Performer: | Billy Connolly, Patrick Fugit, Cole Hauser, Noah Wyle, Svetlana Efremova & Amy Aquino | |
Directed by | Peter Kosminsky | |
Screenwriting by | Mary Agnes Donoghue | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | John Wells & Hunt Lowry | |
Director of Photography: | Elliot Davis | |
Executive Production by | Stacy Cohen, E.K. Gaylord, II, Patrick Markey & Kristin Harms |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Distinguishing it from Oxygen channel territory is its surprisingly hard edge.
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TheMovieReport.com
...It's a tribute to the strength of the book's conception and the good work that's gone into it that it retains the power to haunt us...
Los Angeles Times
Though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further Oprahfication of the world as we know it, it still cuts all the way down to broken bone.
Washington Post
...Kosminsky shows real command of his tech resources, and has an eye for details of L.A. that perhaps only an outsider can bring...
Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Upsetting and dark, for older than PG-13.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Lohman appears in nearly every scene and gives an assured, sympathetic performance as Astrid.
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Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Rating: 2/4 --
What should have been a guaranteed weepie is never truly moving.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description:
WHITE OLEANDER, the Janet Fitch novel made famous on Oprah's Book Club, is the tale of an intense and toxic mother-daughter relationship, coupled with a look at the fundamentally skewed U.S. foster care system. When the beautiful photographer Ingrid Magnusson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is imprisoned for allegedly murdering a philandering boyfriend, her daughter Astrid (Alison Lohman) does her best to survive a string of foster homes where natural adolescent mistakes turn into land mines. Her first stop is the home of a born-again Christian, Starr (Robin Wright Penn, who is so good in this part she's physically unrecognizable.) Next, she is sent to the home of a clinically depressed actress, Claire Richards (Renee Zellweger, whose natural effervescence is delightfully disturbing here.) Claire uses Astrid to fill the void left by a roaming husband (Noah Wyle). Astrid juggles her list of changing homes with visits to Mommy Dearest in prison, while suffering flashbacks of the alleged murder.
WHITE OLEANDER, the first feature for U.K. television director Peter Kosminsky, is stark and brooding. Its simultaneously awful and lovely tone is reminiscent of AMERICAN BEAUTY or THE ICE STORM.
WHITE OLEANDER, the first feature for U.K. television director Peter Kosminsky, is stark and brooding. Its simultaneously awful and lovely tone is reminiscent of AMERICAN BEAUTY or THE ICE STORM.