''Harrison's Flowers'' is a 2000 film by
Elie Chouraqui
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. It stars, among others,
Andie MacDowell
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,
Elias Koteas
Elias Koteas (; el, Ηλίας Κοτέας; born March 11, 1961) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Alvin "Al" Olinsky in the ''Chicago'' franchise, as well as appearing in lead and supporting roles in numerous films. He won the Cana ...
,
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two British Independent Film Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and four times fo ...
,
Adrien Brody
Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's '' The Pianist'' (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Acto ...
,
Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
,
Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as '' Mrs Brown'' (1997), the James Bond film '' Tomorrow Never ...
, and
David Strathairn
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. The film is also
Quinn Shephard
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's big screen debut. The film premiered at the 2000
San Sebastián International Film Festival
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, and released in theatres on 24 January 2001 in France.
Universal Pictures
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released this film in the United States theatrically, then
Lionsgate
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released this film in the United States on DVD.
For this film's United States version, the film's length was reduced by about 5 minutes; it also features a new score by
Cliff Eidelman
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Biogr ...
.
Plot
Harrison Lloyd, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning ''
Newsweek
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'' photojournalist, travels on his last assignment to the
dissolving Yugoslavia in 1991, during the
Croatian War of Independence. While there, he is presumed to have been killed in a building collapse. His wife travels to the region to find him, believing him to be in the city of
Vukovar
Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of ...
. Travelling through the war-torn landscape, she arrives in the city, and bears witness to the
massacre which took place there. Back home, Harrison's son Cesar cares for his father's flowers in their greenhouse.
Cast
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a critic score of 49% based on reviews from 86 critics.
Notes
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2000 films
2000s romance films
2000s war drama films
Films set in 1991
Films set in Croatia
Films about war correspondents
2000s French-language films
Croatian-language films
StudioCanal films
Universal Pictures films
French war drama films
War romance films
Works about the Croatian War of Independence
Films scored by Cliff Eidelman
Films shot in the Czech Republic
Films directed by Élie Chouraqui
Vukovar
Yugoslav Wars films
2000 drama films
Films scored by Bruno Coulais
2000s English-language films
2000s French films