White Oleander (2002)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | White oleander |
| Original title | White oleander |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Kosminsky |
| script | Mary Agnes Donoghue |
| production |
Stacy Cohen E.K. Gaylord II Kristin Harms Hunt Lowry Patrick Markey John Wells |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Elliot Davis |
| cut | Chris Ridsdale |
| occupation | |
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Weißer Oleander ( White Oleander ) is an American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky from 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 with Barry Kolker, who disappoints her. She poisoned him with the extract from the white oleander .
Ingrid is sentenced to a long prison term. She conducts correspondence with her daughter Astrid, who is passed on from one foster family to the next. In the first two of the three families she triggers catastrophes in which her mother is partly to blame because of her strong influence on Astrid, as she does not want to entrust her daughter to other people. After a conversation between Ingrid and the loving but insecure Claire, whom Astrid has come to love as a foster mother, Claire commits suicide. Astrid blames her mother for her misfortune and tells her that she no longer wants to visit her in prison.
In between, Astrid also lives in the children's home, where she meets a boy by drawing. Paul and Astrid are later separated because Astrid is not yet ready to accept Paul's proposed future plan to move to New York with him. They only come together after Astrid has broken away emotionally from the dominant mother.
After the hard life with Astrid's next adoptive family, she changes both externally and internally. One day Ingrid's lawyer went to Astrid to inform her that her mother could be released from prison if Astrid gave false testimony in front of the court. Finally Astrid agrees to visit her mother again after a very long time in prison. She proposes a deal to her mother: she should finally bring to light the truth that she had always kept from Astrid, in return Astrid would tell the untruth in front of the court. She gets answers to questions that she has asked herself for a long time, as well as a different picture of her mother than before. In the end, she moves in with her boyfriend.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as a “ psychological study ” that was “ intelligently developed ” and “ brilliantly played ”. In the end, the film is " kitschy ".
Awards
Michelle Pfeiffer won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award in 2002 and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award in 2003 ; she was nominated for the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award . Renée Zellweger was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 2003 . Marc Donato won the Young Artist Award in 2003 . The costume designer Susie DeSanto was nominated for the Costume Designers Guild Award in 2003 .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
background
The shooting took place in Los Angeles . Production costs were approximately 16 million US dollars estimated. The film grossed approximately $ 16.35 million in US cinemas.
The film has nothing to do with the US film White Oleander from 1946 with Gene Tierney , Walter Huston and Vincent Price , which was released under the same German distribution title and whose original title is Dragonwyck .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for white oleander . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 546 K).
- ↑ White oleander. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Filming locations for White Oleander
- ↑ Business Data for White Oleander
Web links
- White Oleander in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- White Oleander at rotten tomatoes (English)
- White Oleander at Metacritic (English)