White Oleander (DVD, 2003, Widescreen)

i LOVED watching Astrid's journey. I'll admit it was a chick flick but a great one, it helped me to understand how and why people change the way they do, and it helped me appreciate art so much more. A must see for any teen age girl struggling with her identity.

My wife had been looking for this movie for the longest time. She loves it! Could not pass it up for this price.

This movie is my all time favorite. It shows the real life struggles that teenagers have with there parents

this is one of my favorite movies. its based on a book which i've read after i saw the movie, but the movie protrayed it very well. it is a drama and kind of depressing, but it is so worth watching.

Michelle Pfeiffer's character goes through some amazing changes but she makes it believable. I truly enjoyed this film. The young Alison Lohman was suprisingly good and the storyline kept me interested all the way.

This was one of my best experiences with online purchasing and more specifically ebay. It took a reasonable amount of time to get my merchandise after I paid for it and it was a great bargain! Thank you so much. Great Seller!

This one has been a favorite of mine for quite sometime. It's a heartbreaking story about a teen that travels from foster home to foster home, due to a murder her mother committed. Watching this film showed me how difficult it is for people to cope with serious family matters, such as a murder, and then having to be sent away to all of these places. Having read some real experiences from people online, I believe that foster homes are really like that and it is shocking! What a terrifying ordeal anyone should have to go through. Astrid's journey was, at times, difficult to watch but the message towards the end is heart felt. When you feel you're alone, just know that someone out there cares. A must watch for anyone who likes depressing & intense but thoughtful dramas that you can watch over and over and learn something new each time. It's worth buying!

Sent me a cracked disc that didn't work. I wasted my money and excitement about receiving a working product. :(

How can I begin my review for this movie? This is one of those rare movies where you can just watch over and over again and not lose it's quality. As a big fan of the book, I like how the movie is portrayed differently. I like the fact that the movie doesn't make Astrid come meet ends with the other significant people in her life, just to let you wonder about how she would continue to live her life. The book obviously leads her to meet her father, but I think the movie somehow tries to show that women can be independent and wonderful without men. Everything about this movie is so great, visuals, acting (Alison Lohman!!!), script, everything! If you ever get the chance, please take the time to watch this. I guarantee it'll inspire, if not, a small part of you that you never thought you'd imagine.

White Oleander is such an amazing movie. The book is amazing as well. I could not find this movie in any store. Not FYE, not Wal-Mart, nowhere. That's why I was thrilled when I found this movie on half.com for so cheap. It is definitely a movie I recommend watching.

I enjoyed the movie except it didnt go exactly with the book. Like how astrid went to live with marvel and befriended olivia. Also when she was attacked by the dogs. In the book her and paul moved to a foreign country, in the movie they moved to new york. Also in the movie her mother didnt get out, in the book she did. I know not alot of time the movie and book dont match up entirely but this was way off. Also Claire's husband was named ron in the book, in the movie his name was mark...Explain that one plz. Good movie, I think the little girl did a great job as astrid and michelle did a good job and Ingrid. Id rather read the book though, it held my interest alot more than the movie

DVD was in excellent condition, and shipped promptly. GREAT seller, will buy again. THANK YOU !!
Highly suggest this seller.

Cover was more beat up than I was expecting, but it was really cheap, so what do you expect? Overall, I guess I was pleased.

I decided to buy it because the book is amazing, although the movies are never as good as the book, the movie is still really good.

Great adaptation from a truly terrific book. The characters were well portrayed by their respective actors and the story did justice to the novel.

i never received this item, emailed the seller but still never got it. it was paid for on december 14th as a christmas gift for my daughter, seller claimed a storm delayed them shipping it, it is now february and that must have been one hell of a storm!

Pfeiffer plays Ingrid as a self-absorbed succubus, a steely beauty whose soft features can harden into fierce will and whose speeches of lone-wolf self sufficiency hide an emotional vulnerability. She feeds Astrid a poisonous philosophy of misanthropy that almost kills her as surely as the white oleander milkshake that poisoned the mother's former lover.

The leaping story line, shaped by director Peter Kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions, shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits.

Ingrid's cruelty and hypocrisy scream louder than the pain of her own damaged life, but Pfeiffer devours every one of her scenes with a ferocious performance.
In contrast, Astrid's initial foster mothers -- Robin Wright Penn's Bible-thumping ditzy bleached blonde in trailer-park pink and baby blue outfits, and Renée Zellweger's wisp of a needy young wife with an eggshell of an ego -- are like supporting characters in a Dickensian portrait, enigmatic impressions in the life of its orphan hero. Lohman admirably holds her own against these veterans. The bonds of emotional connection are tenuous at best (surely a casualty of the compression) but Lohman blinks little-girl frailty as Astrid adapts chameleon like to please a succession of mother figures and encases her bruised heart beneath layers of emotional armor after each abandonment. Through her succession of identity shifts -- Catholic blond virgin, mop-cropped switchblade sister, designer label princess, raccoon-eyed streetwise survivor -- she never loses the haunted isolation or the sensitivity she releases in loving portraits of faces glimpsed and remembered that she sketches when she thinks no one is looking. "No matter how much she damaged me, no matter how flawed she is, I know my mother loves me," Astrid remarks in the film's tear-jerker of a signature line. "White Oleander" ultimately earns it.