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White Oleander (movie) White Oleander. (movie) White Oleander is a 2002 American drama movie set in California. It stars Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn and Renee Zellweger. It was directed by Peter Kosminsky and is based on the novel of the same name .
The white oleander looks beautiful but its poison kills. Social service agencies take children from their abusive parents but place them in homes and institutions where violence reigns. Ingrid Magnussen (Michelle Pfeiffer) puts her daughter, Astrid (Alison Lohman), in the center of her artwork but pushes her to the perimeter of her reality.
After fifteen-year-old Astrid (Alison Lohman) witnesses her uncompromising but seductive mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), arrested for murder--both their lives change forever. Shuttled between foster mothers (Robin Wright Penn and Renée Zellweger), Astrid struggles to survive her emotionally harsh world, desperately trying to forge her own identity in an ever-changing environment. The only ...
Oct 10, 2022 · ‘White Oleander’ Star Alison Lohman Looks Back on Her Meteoric Rise and Why She Left Hollywood. Lohman opens up on landing the part in a film that changed her life (in spite of a bad wig), a ...
White Oleander. After fifteen-year-old Astrid (Alison Lohman) witnesses her uncompromising but seductive mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), arrested for murder--both their lives change forever. Shuttled between foster mothers (Robin Wright Penn and Renée Zellweger), Astrid struggles to survive her emotionally harsh world, desperately trying ...
WHITE OLEANDER is adapted from a book with language both vivid and lyrical that made the terrible events more epic than sordid. The movie tries to achieve the same standard, going for prestige drama over soap opera. A Jungian analysis might suggest that the story is a metaphor for the inevitable separation in all mother-daughter relations.
Oct 11, 2002 · But the movie is so finely acted that their attraction, even when they don't touch, carries a charge of lightning. ''White Oleander'' is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Its sexual ...
