Watch White Oleander (2002) Free Online

Release Date: 2002

Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Wright, Taryn Manning, Stephen Root, Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Noah Wyle, Liz Stauber, Renée Zellweger, Patrick Fugit, Billy Connolly

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Coming of age, Film adaptation

White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. The cast features Alison Lohman in the central role of Astrid Magnussen, and Michelle Pfeiffer as her temperamental mother Ingrid, alongside Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn, Billy Connolly and Patrick Fugit in supporting roles. The screenplay was adapted from the novel of the same name by Janet Fitch, which was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1999. The narrator, Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman), is the 15-year-old daughter of a free-spirited artist, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). Since her father left before she... MORE

White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. The cast features Alison Lohman in the central role of Astrid Magnussen, and Michelle Pfeiffer as her temperamental mother Ingrid, alongside Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn, Billy Connolly and Patrick Fugit in supporting roles. The screenplay was adapted from the novel of the same name by Janet Fitch, which was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1999. The narrator, Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman), is the 15-year-old daughter of a free-spirited artist, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). Since her father left before she was old enough to remember him, Astrid depends heavily upon the maternal care of her passionate but largely self-centered mother. Ingrid's current relationship, with a vulgar man named Barry (Billy Connolly), comes to an end when he is discovered to be cheating on her with younger women, and her emotional response leads her to murder him using poison (white oleander). Ingrid is arrested and sentenced to life in prison, leaving Astrid without parents and in need of foster care. Astrid is sent to live with foster mother Starr Thomas (Robin Wright Penn), a former stripper and born-again Christian who LESS