Synopsis: Immersing herself into a world she never fathomed, Sarah Lloyd embarks on a perilous journey to find Harrison, her husband, colleague and father of their two children. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist is missing on an assignment in the dangerous country of Yugoslavia during the 1991 war. Harrison is presumed dead, but it is Sarah who leaves others in disbelief, hell-bent in her pursuit to find him, dead or alive. And life, as Sarah knew it, will suddenly become unreal.

Cast:
Andie MacDowell .... Sarah Lloyd
Elias Koteas .... Yeager Pollack
Brendan Gleeson .... Marc Stevenson
Adrien Brody .... Kyle Morris
David Strathairn .... Harrison Lloyd
Alun Armstrong .... Samuel Brubeck
Caroline Goodall .... Johanna Pollack
Diane Baker .... Mary Francis
Marie Trintignant .... Cathy
Christian Charmetant .... Jeff
Gerard Butler .... Chris Kumac, photojournalist
Scott Michael Anton .... Cesar Lloyd
Dragan Antonic .... Chetnik

Favorite Quotes:
• Harrison: "Well, Sam, it's like my luck bank is down to zero. I never use to get clammy hands when guys started going at each other around me. I took my pictures calm, clear-headed, even when I was up to my neck in shit. And I was proud. The more at stack, the more dangerous it was. And I was proud to expose it, and I was conscious of doing my job right...and I wasn't afraid of anything."
Sam: "So?"
Harrison: "Sam, all I can think about now is Sarah and the kids. And I'm sick of it."

• "Excuse me. I have to take a leak." - Harrison Lloyd

• Harrison: "Oh, your brother's a hypocritical son-of-a-bitch. Going around taking pictures of flowers while people kill each other all over the world. He should be ashamed of himself."
Sarah: "He doesn't pick them, he saves them, and he gets paid good money for it."
Harrison: "Yeah, I know, and the St. Louis Patanical Gardens is a waste of taxpayers' money." [pause] "I'm kidding. No, your brother is a very wise man, and I envy him."

• "Now, nobody knows how Harrison got to the hospital. He had suffered what they call a 'bomb-blast affect,' it's the trama caused when a bomb explodes in close proximity. He was delirious. Sarah took all his bandages off, and we realized he had burns all over his body. He was in unbearable pain, but he said nothing. He was someplace else. He couldn't eat, so she fed him little pieces of bread dipped in the water. She kept talking to him, reassuring him. I know it sounds crazy, but it was almost like she was happy." - Yeager Pollack

• "Caesar took care of the flowers. All this time, he told me he took care of the flowers. My little boy took care of the flowers." - Harrison Lloyd

• "They live in St. Louis now. They got a home there not far from the Patanical Gardens. Harrison's doing fine, thank God. He never watches the tv or news anymore, that's for sure...but he takes pictures of flowers." - Yeager Pollack

Notes:
• Although Harrison's Flowers was completed in 2000, it wasn't actually released into theaters until 2002.
• The film was shot on location in New York and Prague, the Czech Republic.
• Harrison's Flowers won the Best Cinematography Award (Nicola Pecorini), CEC Award for Best Film (Elie Chouraqui), and the OCIC Award (Elie Chouraqui) at the 2000 San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Critical Praise & Commentary:
• "As the lost husband, David Strathairn seems like the basically sane person you'd want to have roaming around recording the insanity of war. Thanks to Strathairn's depths, he does look like he's been through the ringer. His calmness--even his desire to retire to the greenhouse to photograph flowers--serves as a provocation to his mad, spouting fellow correspondent Kyle..." -Richard Von Busack, Metro Active

• "Strathairn, (Limbo, L.A. Confidential) is one of the most protean actors in film today. ...he's wonderful to watch whenever he's on screen." -Steve Marshall, Popcorn Chronicles

• "If anything, Steve undersells his praise of David Strathairn. It's true that we were robbed of his presence during most of the movie, but when he is on screen, you can't watch anyone else. He has a magical presence." -Patty Marshall, Popcorn Chronicles

• "David Strathairn and Andie MacDowell play their roles as husband and wife with a loving tenderness that comes across as genuine. Strathairn doesn't have much screen time but manages to infuse Harrison with enough of a warm personality so that the audience cares when he goes missing early on in the film." -Rebecca Murray, About.com: Hollywood Movies

• "One of those actors is the terrific David Strathairn, who has been out of the spotlight since his 1999 performance in A Map of the World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Limbo. Strathairn gives realism to all his roles, whether they are effete like in A Midsummer Night's Dream, an everyman like in Limbo, and smarmy in L.A Confidential. Here he gives credibility to a role that has been so poorly strung together that the emotional investment could have been lost had a different, less talented actor taken it. Once Strathairn leaves the film, though, his absence is horribly felt... With MacDowell fiddling around and Chouraqui aimlessly trying to put the film together, at least the audience is also deeply intent on the possible reemergence of Harrison--not only does that bring a happy ending (the film's actual ending, by the way, is little more than a contrivance), but also brings some of the needed support from the always dependable Strathairn." -David Perry, Cinema Scene

• "On a 1991 assignment for Newsweek in Yugoslavia, photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (the excellent David Strathairn) is reported missing." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

• "Andie MacDowell is Sarah Lloyd, a Newsweek correspondent with two young children, a posh home and a globe-trotting husband, Harrison (the versatile David Strathairn)." -Luisa F. Ribeiro, Boxoffice Magazine

(David On His Role:)
• [on the story's relation to late news reporter Daniel Pearl] "It's admittedly unsettling. On the one hand, even making the comparison at all sort of trivializes the very real tragedy of Daniel Pearl's death, because this is just a movie, after all. It's essentially a love story as opposed to an in-depth examination of photojournalism, but if it can offer a little bit of insight into what these journalists are up against, and how they're putting themselves in the line of fire for such an honorable pursuit, then I think that's great." -David Strathairn, 2002

• "Going to Alaska for Limbo was really special, and it was wonderful making Harrison's Flowers in Prague, too." -David Strathairn, 2002

• [on the film] "It's an important revisiting of that age-old tragedy of what war does to families. We were aware that we were dealing with a situation that has been relevant for as long as conflagrations like that go on." -David Strathairn, 2002

• "Harrison was this guy who really lived his passions for life, through his love for her (Sarah) and his work. As a photojournalist covering the war you're the first and last word sometimes and that is a pretty powerful place to be. There's this hero worship element to it." -David Strathairn, 2002

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