usually i don't like the war movies because are very exhausting but this i like very much for the fact of the love of the wife for his husband all the things that she do because she knows that he isn't dead. the love that the father have for their beautiful kids, who are performed by amazing young actors. the role of all the actors are amazing and wonderful all know how to react on every scene o f the movie even the kids that i think that both will be amazing actors in the future. the story that is based on a book is beautifully told in the movie and fabulously directed by the director. the movie isn't be popular in the us than in other cities but i guess that is a movie that was a movie that could be nominated to the Oscars specially Andie Macdowell.

I come from the war in ex Yugoslavia, movie is so realistic, only is confusing for others who don't understand who was chetniks and croatian soldiers, Nustar, Vinkovci or Vukovar. Thanks to this movie to showing the rest of population how bloody that war was, thanks to the journalist who was there to witnessing the killings of the innocent people, making that movie it's just one step to leaving the message: please, to never happened again! Rest of the world was quiet watching the news, silent, without any help. Who was the victims, civilians on both side, movie didn't say that many of the people from hospital, wounded, chetniks kill them after occupation of Vukovar. The theme of the movie is love. I like the movie, first movie what showing the part of reality what really happened there, but really victims was croatian what movie didn't say. Serbian attack the Vukovar, still now Croatia looking for many of missing people. Milosevich free many criminals from jail in Serbia to fight against innocent civilians, this was the reason why terrible thinks happened. Thanks for this movie!

If you are watching this movie to watch one or another of the cast members, or because you want to watch a war movie, or because you want to see the story of a woman tragically trying to rescue her husband, you'll have to change your expectations when watching this film: I know I had to. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, Elias Koteas, and all the rest of the cast, are marvelous, of course, and ultimately the way they threw themselves into their characters made the movie what it was--stunning."Harrison's Flowers" is not just a love story, a war movie, or a point-blank tragedy: neither is it simply an explanation of why photographers aren't as insane as we think. Certainly it contains elements of all those ideas. The incandescent relationship between Harrison and Sarah Lloyd is beautiful in its simplicity, though it is certainly not the main thrust behind the movie, as the title might suggest; war is obviously portrayed as bloody, destructive, and painful; the photographers/photojournalists focused on in the film are gorgeous characters, all with intense motivations and ideas. But "Harrison's Flowers" goes beyond any of that, becoming--I think--one of the best films ever made about a civilian's perspective towards war. Because it primarily concerns civilians, it doesn't follow along the lines of "Behind Enemy Lines" or "Saving Private Ryan" or even "The Thin Red Line", which all concern the soldier's perspectives: watching your comrades die, following orders or doing the right thing, living as a coward or dying heroically.... No. "Harrison's Flowers" has nothing to do with fighting for a cause, or with warrior-bonds between men, or even a statement against war. It is a beautiful, graphic, tragic explanation of why photographers and photojournalists do and should continue to do what they do: capture the world of war in Kodak, to remind us of it when it is gone, to remind us of destruction in times of peace, to remind us why war between men happens, to remind us of who really suffers during war--not just the soldiers, but the civilians, as well. The film's dedication (to the photographers and journalists who died in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995) reveals this further. If you're anything like me, after seeing this film you'll feel motivated to better the world and reveal evil, not matter if it means starving, freezing with fear, being wounded, and perhaps even dying--like the very, very human photographers and journalists in this film do.

I did not consider this movie to be very good. I found that the acting left something to be desired (from certain people, though). Some of the actors did a good job though. David Strathairn did a fairly good job (I was not as impressed with his acting job in this as A League of Their Own and The River Wild though). Adrien Brody also did a good job. I didn't care for his character though - every other word out of his mouth was some form of expletive (frequently the one beginning with an "f"), but he did play his role well. The thing that I didn't care for about this movie though is that it was very anti-climactic, and was not very believable (like Andy driving her car directly into the war zone). However, if you are interested in a slow war movie that has a bit of a love story, this would fit in that category. Overall, I give Harrison's flowers a 3 out of 10.