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Release Date
• USA: Oct 11, 2002
• UK: 19 Sep 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 11, 2003
• R2: 23 Feb 2004
Budget $16,000,000
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White Oleander Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements concerning dysfunctional relationships, drug content, language, sexuality and violence.
Running Time
1 hour, 49 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Studio John Wells Productions, Pandora Film
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Other Titles
• White Oleander
• Weißer Oleander (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Prison, Coming Of Age, Courtroom, Murder, Melodrama, School / Campus, Law, Love
Tagline: Where does a mother end and a daughter begin?
Plot: After her uncompromising but seductive mother Ingrid (MICHELLE PFEIFFER) kills her boyfriend for abandoning her, fifteen-year-old Astrid (ALISON LOHMAN) witnesses her mother's arrest. It’s an event that will change the course of both their lives.Suddenly, young Astrid is on her own. Shuttled through a series of foster homes (and foster mothers including ROBIN WRIGHT PENN and RENÉE ZELLWEGER), Astrid struggles to master the techniques she needs if she's to survive the unyielding and often harsh world she is thrust into. Astrid tries desperately to forge her own identity within her ever-changing environment. From behind bars, Ingrid’s powerful influence is the only constant in Astrid's life. For good, and for bad… In the three years that mark her passage from child to adult, Astrid must learn the value of independence and courage, rage and forgiveness, love and survival, to earn her freedom from the past.
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The Last Samurai, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Boondock Saints |
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Thomas Newman
The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, The Green Mile |
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