"White Oleander" is not, strictly speaking, the worst choice for adaptation of Oprah's Book Club selections. It's a little more technically proficient than some of her choices, a little wider in ...

”Oprah is being shown an advance copy of the movie,” says British director Peter Kosminsky (1994’s TV movie ”Wuthering Heights”). Smart man. If America’s favorite tastemaker — whose ...

Janet Fitch is trying to slink back into the Writer’s Life -- working unnoticed on her novel in a downtown Los Angeles studio, grabbing meals out of a can -- the life she had before her ...

White Oleander. Skip to the ... an unassuming misfit who shares her passion for art. In typical Oprah-book fashion, White Oleander lays out the psychology in ... PASTEThe 25 Best Movies of 2025 ...

White Oleander White Oleander, directed by Peter Kosminsky and adapted from the Janet Fitch best-seller, tends to settle for easy, homiletic insights. But it also has a collection of first-rate ...

Movies 'White Oleander' a touching story of abandonment and adaption. By SEAN AXMAKER, SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER Oct 10, 2002 ... "White Oleander" ultimately earns it. Oct 10, 2002.

WHITE OLEANDER: Drama. Starring Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger. Directed by Peter Kosminsky. Written by Mary Agnes Donoghue from Janet Fitch's novel. (PG-13 ...

‘White Oleander’ Star Alison Lohman Looks Back on Her Meteoric Rise and Why She Left Hollywood. Lohman opens up on landing the part in a film that changed her life (in spite of a bad wig), a ...

White Oleander, based on the best-selling, Oprah-certified novel by Janet Fitch, opens in a volley of voice-over, as Astrid Magnusson (Alison Lohman), a grave, yellow-haired young woman, fingers ...