White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. The film stars Alison Lohman in the central role of Astrid Magnussen and Michelle Pfeiffer as her manipulative mother, Ingrid, with Robin Wright, Noah Wyle, and Renée Zellweger in supporting roles.

White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. In the fashion of a picaresque novel, it deals with themes of motherhood, telling the story of a girl named Astrid who is separated from her mother, Ingrid, and placed in a series of foster homes.

Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is a fifteen-year-old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a beautiful, free-spirited poet and artist who also suffers from a borderline personality disorder (BPD).

2019年6月30日 · Astrid is sent to a foster home after her mother’s sentence. Her new family is that of Starr, which comprises of a former stripper, Starr, and her boyfriend Ray. Astrid has an affair with Ray, something that angers Starr to an extent of shooting Astrid. Astrid moves to live with the Turlocks family, which is comprised of Ed and Marvel.

Astrid : There's nothing wrong with being a Christian. Ingrid : Are you out of your mind? How did this happen?

Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is a fifteen-year-old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a beautiful, free-spirited poet and artist who also suffers from a borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Ingrid is sent to jail after murdering her deceitful partner (Barry) with the poison from the White Oleander flower. Daughter of Ingrid who at the beginning of the book is twelve years old. Astrid becomes a ward of the state of California after her mother is prosecuted for murder.

1999年7月1日 · Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned--becomes a ...

2022年10月24日 · The world was never really on her side but she keeps thinking that she just has to try harder but nothing ever works out. Why not shoot the kid when the world has never been nice to you? But she did try to visit her son in the hospital, right? And Astrid wouldn't rat her out because she felt guilty. She knew she shouldn't have slept with Ray.

Astrid is the protagonist and narrator of White Oleander. The story is told from her perspective and begins when she is 12 years old and still living with her mother. Astrid depends heavily on her mother at this point, as she is the only person she has to rely on.

2016年8月1日 · Young Astrid enters the American foster care system after her controlling, narcissistic mother, Ingrid, is sent to prison for murdering her [Ingrid’s] boyfriend. We follow Astrid’s search for love and stability as she moves from carer to carer, confronted with more loss, trauma, and people with personality disorders.

White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. The film stars Alison Lohman in the central role of Astrid Magnussen and Michelle Pfeiffer as her manipulative mother, Ingrid, with Robin Wright, Noah Wyle, and Renée Zellweger in supporting roles.

This detailed literature summary also contains Related Titles and a Free Quiz on White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Astrid is a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her beautiful mother, Ingrid, a poet. Her mother is the kind of beauty who turns people's heads.

The murder that takes place in the opening pages of "White Oleander" is committed by the narrator's mother, an imperious, narcissistic poet named Ingrid Magnussen who poisons her boyfriend...

Ingrid Magnussen, who is an artist, brings up her teenage daughter Astrid alone. The daughter follows many aspects of her mother – Astrid is beautiful, strong and freedom-loving. They live together in their independent and amazing world, separated from all other people.

Based on Janet Finch’s best-selling novel, White Oleander loses itself in one girl’s desperate journey through adolescence, foster homes and abuse. Astrid is only 15 when her brilliant, artistic, passionate, inflexible mom is arrested for killing her cheating lover.

The film centers on Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman), a teenage girl who goes through a series of foster homes after her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) is sentenced to life in prison for murdering her boyfriend with a poison made from white oleander.

White Oleander is the moving and complex story of Astrid’s journey through six foster homes across southern California, each one an unnerving snapshot of American family life. Fitch’s prose is fresh and evocative....

When her mother goes to prison for a violent act of vengeance, young Astrid, the protagonist of "White Oleander," floats from foster family to foster family. Due in part to the efforts of her conniving mother Ingrid, Astrid cannot seem to settle down in …

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