White Oleander (film)

White Oleander ( White Oleander ) is an American film drama directed by Peter Kosminsky from the year 2002. The plot is based on a novel by Janet Fitch.

Action

Ingrid Magnussen is a single mother of a teenage girl. She falls in love Barry Kolker, who disappointed. They poisoned him with the extract from the White Oleander.

Ingrid is sentenced to a long prison term. It leads correspondence with her daughter Astrid, which is passed from one foster family to the next. In the first two of the three families it triggers disasters, where their mother carries through their strong influence on Astrid blame because they do not want to entrust their daughter other people. After a conversation between Ingrid and the loving but insecure Claire, Astrid has learned to love as a nursing mother, Claire commits suicide. Astrid makes her mother responsible for their misfortune and tells her she no longer wanted to visit them in prison.

In between lives Astrid also in the children's home where she meets by drawing a boy. Paul and Astrid will later be separated, since Astrid is not yet ready to take on the proposed plan for the future of Paul to come with him to New York to take. They only come together after Astrid has become emotionally detached from the overbearing mother.

After a hard life at Astrid's Next adoptive family they changed both externally and internally. One day, looking for Ingrid's lawyer Astrid on to tell her that her mother may be released from prison, Astrid would make a false statement before the Court. Finally, Astrid makes an out, after a very long time to visit her mother in prison again. She suggests her mother a deal: You should finally bring the truth they had Astrid always concealed to light, but Astrid would say the truth before the Court. You get answers to questions that she has found a long time, and a different picture of their mother than in the past. At the end, she moves in with her boyfriend.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film described the film as a "psychological study ", the " intelligent developed " and " brilliantly played " was. At the end of the film was " cheesy ".

Awards

Michelle Pfeiffer won in 2002, the San Diego Film Critics Society Award and in 2003 the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award; She was nominated for the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award. Renée Zellweger was nominated in 2003 for a Golden Satellite Award. Marc Donato won the 2003 Young Artist Award. The designer of the costumes Susie DeSanto was nominated in 2003 for the Costume Designers Guild Award.

Background

Filming took place in Los Angeles. Production costs were estimated at about 16 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 16.35 million U.S. dollars.

The film has nothing to do with the German distribution appeared under the same title American film from 1946 with Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and Vincent Price, whose original title is Dragonwyck.

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