Christopher Clarke Movies

French director Elie Chouraqui adapts the novel of the same name into this drama, that, although set in 1991, became tragically topical in the weeks before its release due to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a photo editor for Newsweek and the happily married wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn). Harrison has been reconsidering his career of covering the world's war zone "hot spots" in order to spend more time with his family, and is accused by his colleague, Kyle (Adrien Brody), of playing it too safe in his risky profession. Harrison elects to accept one more combat assignment to cover the simmering tensions in Croatia, a conflict that quickly erupts into a full-scale, genocidal Civil War. Informed that Harrison is believed to have been killed in the fighting, Sarah refuses to accept her husband's death and becomes convinced that she's seen him, alive, in a news broadcast. She travels to Croatia on a quest to find him, and is eventually aided by Kyle, as well as two of Harrison's other colleagues, Yeager (Elias Koteas) and Stevenson (Brendan Gleeson). The group, armed with cameras instead of weapons, witnesses the horrors and atrocities unfolding in the region, while tracing the elusive path of Harrison, who may well be dead already. Harrison's Flowers was distributed by Universal Focus, the art house division of Universal Pictures that previously released Mulholland Drive (2001) and Billy Elliott (2000). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

An artificial man's attempts to become a better person could turn him into a walking weapon in this episode of the sci-fi television series Star Trek: Voyager. Holographic physician The Doctor (Robert Picardo) has decided he could stand an upgrade in both his personality and his level of efficiency, and be begins developing a series of sub-programs based on the thought patterns of several great men of medicine and good will. However, Lieutenant Torres (Roxann Dawson) warns him that the sub-programs could have unexpected side effects, and it turns out she's right -- The Doctor begins behaving in an unpredictable and violent manner, and it becomes imperative to purge him of the new data before disaster strikes. Meanwhile, when the Mikhals, a band of interstellar gypsies, cross the path of the Vopyager, Kes (Jennifer Lien) becomes infatuated with Zahir (David Lee Smith), one of the nomadic pilots, and she begins to wonder if she should run away with him. Star Trek: Voyager 161: Darkling first aired on February 19, 1997. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide