Stars: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Connolly, Renee Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn

Director: Peter Kosminsky

Summary: Astrid is a fifteen-year-old who lives in California with her mother, Ingrid. Their life is happy until, one day, Barry Kolker comes into their lives. Ingrid falls madly in love with him only to have her heart broken. In anger Ingrid murders Barry with the poison of her favourite flower - The White Oleander - and, as a result, is sent to prison for life. Throughout Ingrid's years in prison mother and daughter keep in touch...

WHITE OLEANDER, is the tale of an intense and toxic mother-daughter relationship, coupled with a look at the fundamentally skewed U.S. foster care system. When the beautiful photographer Ingrid Magnusson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is imprisoned for allegedly murdering a philandering boyfriend, her daughter Astrid (Alison Lohman) does her best to survive a string of foster homes where natural adolescent mistakes turn into land mines. Her first stop is the home of a born-again Christian, Starr (Robin Wright Penn, who is so good in this part she's physically unrecognisable.) Next, she is sent to the home of a clinically depressed actress, Claire Richards (Renee Zellweger, whose natural effervescence is delightfully disturbing here.) Claire uses Astrid to fill the void left by a roaming husband (Noah Wyle). Astrid juggles her list of changing homes with visits to Mommy Dearest in prison, while suffering flashbacks of the alleged murder.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2002
Release Date:	February 23, 2004
Runtime:	105 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	H D 94771
Keywords:	White, General, Drama, Oleander
Genre:	Drama