Harrison's Flowers (2000)

I liked this movie a lot but it still seemed somehow 'wrong' to me. The storyline was very stilted and unbelievable (yeah, a woman who knows nothing about photography and war will travel to the Balkans and rescue her husband from those complete animals? No. Even Bruce Willis might struggle :-)).I was a press photographer for many years and got into a lot of tight situations (not wars fortunately) and some of the scenes seemed 'real' to me and some really 'unreal'.I thought Andie McDowell did a reasonable job. So Did Aiden Brody but SOMEONE tell me why he stopped being an arsehole and became a good guy? The plot seemed to slip there about the middle. Also the father-son relationship here is so thin you'd fall through it. The kid felt neglected and then and tended his dad's plants for three months? Really? Hey, it's not bad to watch (some good war scenes in there) but this is a way big waste of money. You can try to be 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Sleepless in Seatle' and expect to either succeed or have film-goers rave about you (well, theoretically you could I guess, but this effort falls way short).

This is one heck of a movie. Everything about it is just so wonderfully put together. The story is about a woman (Andie Mcdowell) and her journalist husband (I forget his name). While on a trip, her husband is reported dead, but Sarah (I remembered her name now) doesn't believe that is true, so, she sets out to find him. She doesn't go along, she goes with some other journalists (including Adrian Brody). This trip is a long, dangerous, and strenuous trip that shows the brutality of war, and the strong love between a woman and her husband. What happens I won't say of course, but the title of the movie has to do with the ending.The acting is phenomenal and the direction of the movie is superb. The script is great, however I found the dialog to be bland and had a little bit to much profanity, but its a really minor turn off. But the movie is a movie you can't forget, and its a must see for war fans and for fans of anyone in the cast.I rate it 10/10 (excellent) Rated R-Strong War Violence and Gruesome Images, Pervasive Language and Brief Drug Use

Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Reading the other comments I have come to an understanding that very few people know the truth about the war in Croatia. Especially idiots from north and west Europe.One of rare movies about horrors in Vukovar and Croatia.Igor, Croatia

When her photo-journalist husband is reported killed during the Croatian-Serbian war, an American woman refuses to believe his death and sets out to find him. Ill-prepared, she very quickly encounters the depravity and horrific violence of the events of Yugoslavia 1991-92.Harrison's Flowers plays like an uncomfortable hybrid between a gritty European film, and a rather crass US TV movie. Whilst the scenes of war, and the experiences of journalists on the front line are captured to astonishing, and frequently devastating effect, the very notion of MacDowell wandering through the carnage looking for her husband approaches the ridiculous. MacDowell isn't necessarily a bad actor, and has often been shown to good effect in a number of funny and successful comedies. However, she just doesn't have the chops to carry such a brutal and shocking story, and as such is the film's central flaw. This viewer can't help wondering what kind of movie it would have been had, say, Cate Blanchett played Sarah. Other performances are excellent, and deeply credible, and asides from a frankly unbelievable ending, this film sears its way into the memory and reminds how shocking this period of history was.