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White Oleander | Year: 2002 Classification: Drama Directed: - Peter Kosminsky Actors/Actresses: - Michelle Pfeiffer as Ingrid - Renee Zellweger - Robin Wright Penn - Alison Lohman as Astrid - Michelle Pfeifer Powerful Movie About Relationships and Emotions. This was one incredible movie. Shown from the eyes of Astrid, it takes you on a journey of heartache and lessons. Alison Lohman does a great job acting the part of the lonely lost teenage girl. She starts the journey with her mother, comfortably dangerous Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) in a comfortable home in LA. This is all upset when Ingrid poisons her boyfriend and ends up in jail. Astrid is then sent through a series of foster homes where she learns many tough lessons and is stronger after each encounter. Periodically she visits her mother in prison and grows more and more distant from her as Ingrid tries to keep control over Astrid. Pfeiffer plays Neurotic incredibly well. Zellweger I believe does one of the best acting jobs in the whole movie as a Co-Dependent, bad acting, foster mother. This movie will take you through a rollercoaster of emotions. It deserves to be seen by everyone. Great, powerful, dramatic movie!! Better as a book than it is a movie? Based on the best selling novel of the same title (which my girlfriend loved), WHITE OLEANDER is a film about the problems a young girl named Astrid (Alison Lohman) faces as she is bounced around in a series of different foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) kills a man in cold blood. <BR> I'm a movie fan not a book fan. But I can see where this would have made a better book than it does a movie. There's way two much ground to cover in two hours. This story needs a background and we need to understand ALL the characters and in the film we don't. Good performances by Alison Lohman (in her debut I believe), Cole Hauser (PITCH BLACK), Patrick Fugit (the ALMOST FAMOUS kid), and Renee Zelwegger (JERRY MAGUIRE) though. Fans of the book may want to check this out just to see what they think could have been done differently. I know my girlfriend had plenty of opinions of her own. Stick to Tea Men covet the hunt and women desire the perfect nest, so when we see a story about women and these women suffer in melodramatic fashion, we say this is a "Chick Flick." The men leave the room to drink beer in the garage. Well "White Oleander" did not threaten my burly manhood. I found the story compelling. I rooted for young teen, Alison Lohman. Her mother, Michelle Pfeiffer poisons a lover in a jealous rage. Consequently mom is arrested and gets 30 years in the slammer. Alison is shuttled from foster home to orphanage. Alison falls for the man toy of a Jesus freak and gets shot. Then terror girls at the orphanage jump her terns that dominated a early decade of American television and starred Chuck Connors as Lucas ts how good Kubrick and McDowell are at presenting this diabolicle character and his encounters. When all is said and done A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is a true masterpiece, in terms of acting, soundtrack, pace, screenplay. Very few will say otherwise. However in addition to that they will also say that they found the film upsetting. Buy White Oleander at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on White Oleander Search with the Priority Search Engine on White Oleander This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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