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MPAA Raing: PG13
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Genres: Melodrama, Coming-of-Age, Drama
Released Date: October 11, 2002 (USA)
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Summary:
The Oprah Book Club best-seller by Janet Fitch makes it to the big screen in this adaptation from British director Peter Kosminsky. White Oleander recounts the traumatic adolescence of Astrid Magnusson (Alison Lohman), who finds herself an orphan after her short-fused, enigmatic artist mother Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) is carted off to prison on murder charges. Astrid f... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Alison Lohman - (Astrid Magnussen)
Michelle Pfeiffer - (Ingrid Magnussen)
Robin Wright Penn - (Starr)
Renée Zellweger - (Claire Richards)
Billy Connolly - (Barry Kolker)
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Review:
Adapting Janet_Fitch's florid, overwrought, Oprah-endorsed melodrama to the big screen poses a challenge to any director: Stay true to the source novel and make a laughable, pretentious soap opera, or break away from the book and its legions of fans and make a low-key, introspective character study. The result lies somewhere in-between, as Br... Continue >>

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