White Oleander (1 Viewer)

[Here_I_am]

White Oleander was an awesome book. I rented the movie and suprise, suprise, it sucked. Has anyone else read it or seen movie? What did you think?

 

[Here_I_am]

Hasn't anyone read or seen it? Anyone... Can't believe it.

 

[truly-in-bliss]

yeah i have heard of the book.. planning to read it... the movie was a bit... umm.. it was okay......

 

[snot]

yeah i watched the movie a tad strange with a dissapointing ending i must say. it did have me hooked then dropped me like a tonn of bricks, very dissapointed. but i didint know that there was a book whats that like. im kinda thinkin now that i might do that as a supplementery text for crime fiction....

 

[Josie]

I liked the movie, but I haven't read the book.

 

[Toodulu]

loved the book, and so i refused to see the movie

 

[Here_I_am]

Don't watch the movie, it is the biggest dissappointment ever. They left soooo much out.

 

[miss_salty]

I love White Oleander. Ingrid is such an interesting character. Some parts of the book was really striking.
Twenty names for tears - heartdew, griefhoney, sadwater . . .

 

[kitty1]

I saw the movie first then the book so i wasnt really disapointed cause the book gave me so much more detail into the characters

 

[m1nx]

I loved the book and surprisingly enough, I didn't mind the movie too much either. granted, i was stuck on a plane and it was the only other thing that was worth watching (I can't remember the other ones .... although I do remember there was this hilarious foreign movie on .... OH! it was maid in manhattan and rabbit proof fence.) it was a flight to malaysia too, so I ended up watching that thing about 3/4 times over. maybe it had something to do with the fact that I hadn't read the book in much too long, but i loved the suitcases at the end too.

 

[Sasky]

Hey - great topic H_I_am - I watched the movie awhile ago, I found the movie quite interesting, and hearing now that the book is much better am very disappoined that I haven't read it yet. But I love the Streep - she's such a talented actress - such a shocker in this one! Did the film actually follow the plot though - like characters, intro, conclusion?

 

[glycerine]

hahaha meryl streep isnt in white oleander
think you're thinking of michelle pfieffer

 

[steph@nie]

i havent read the book, but i have seen the movie and i didnt like it that much.. it just.. didnt do it for me