White Oleander 2002 123movies

Watch: White Oleander 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is a fifteen-year-old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a beautiful, free-spirited poet and artist who also suffers from a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (Sir Billy Connolly) (that her mother refers to at first as “The goat man”) comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favorite flower: the White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade, she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid’s gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid’s gift is to teach her Mother about love..
Plot: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 32,741
	69% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 310 Popularity: 12.915 | TMDB

Reviews:

Superb film version of a fine novel
Strong performances by Lohman, Penn, Zellweger and especially Michelle Pfeiffer in a faithful adaptation of Janet Fitch’s novel. Not hard to see why this one didn’t attract more attention in theaters, since it lacks the ingredients that seem to characterize hit films nowadays — such as action, violence, sex and stunning special effects. It’s just a very moving story, well-crafted and well-acted. I’d recommend it to anyone.

Some good performances
Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is a sweet sensitive Californian girl with her dominating artistic unconventional mother Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). It’s a reasonable life until her mother is arrested for her boyfriend Barry Kolker (Billy Connolly)’s murder. Astrid is taken by Children’s Services and shuttled from one disaster after another. Her mother is convicted for life in prison. Her first foster mother is the religious Starr (Robin Wright) who was a former stripper. She gets involved with Starr’s boyfriend and Starr ends up shooting her. Then she goes to the group home where she is picked on. There she finds a soulmate in Paul Trout (Patrick Fugit). Then she goes with the fragile Clare (Renée Zellweger), and finally with the money scheming Rena (Svetlana Efremova).

Alison Lohman has her big breakthrough performance as the sensitive Astrid. She does a fragile person quite well. And she can show her character grow just as well. However her reserved nature limits the tension. She really needs to break down and cry in the group home. Michelle Pfeiffer is given a complex character to play in this one. She does an admirable job. Although I wonder if Robin Wright would do a better job. Pfeiffer has a streak of nice sweetness in her that she can’t quite shake. The movie needs her to have a meaner spirit. Overall it is a big vast personal melodrama. The acting is done well. The story is compelling.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Peter Kosminsky
Writer Janet Fitch, Mary Agnes Donoghue
Actors Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak/Fuji)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm