Harrison's Flowers

– Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 10 Minutes
Release Year:
2000
Harrison's Flowers (2000)

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.

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Harrison's Flowers (2000) - Trailer

Release Date:

15 Mar 2002

Language:

English, French, Serbian, Croatian

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Élie Chouraqui

Writer:

Isabel Ellsen (book), Élie Chouraqui (screenplay), Didier Le Pêcheur (screenplay), Isabel Ellsen (screenplay), Michael Katims (screenplay collaboration)

Main Actors:

Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody

Plot:

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.

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Gross profit:

$1,621,845

Production:

Universal Focus

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
49%
Metacritic:
49%