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 br... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumImpressively unflappable and natural, 23-year-old Lohman -- whose best known credit is perhaps a role on Fox's short-lived ''Pasadena'' -- holds the whole plot together skillfully. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford"White Oleander," the movie, is akin to a Reader's Digest condensed version of the source material. |
| Dallas Morning NewsJane SumnerIt's exceptionally well-cast, helmed and acted. |
| Houston ChronicleEric HarrisonThey kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovIt's worth mentioning that any movie that ends with the phrase "I know my mother loves me" already has two strikes against it in my book. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonThe daughter's story is often haunting, but Peter Kosminsky's film . . . comes unglued because the mother is the stock psychotic villainess of countless Hollywood films. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorWith its open, spontaneous elasticity, White Oleander is that rare Hollywood film -- an attempt to understand, without judgment, a world on its own terms. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThere isn't a whole lot of ambiguity here. But the lessons are well delivered. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansLohman plays each mood with precision, then brings them all together as Astrid weathers the changes and grows into adulthood. |
| Detroit NewsSusan StarkThe picture's pretentiousness puts a drag on its running time. |
