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``White Oleander'' Debuts as Gala Presentation at the 27th Annual Toronto Film Festival in September.


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 as a Gala Presentation at the 27th Toronto Film Festival in September, 2002.

The John Wells production, directed by Peter Kosminsky from a Mary Agnes Donoghue screenplay, is based on the acclaimed best-selling novel "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch, and stars Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellweger. It tells the unforgettable story of a girl whose precarious odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes becomes a redeeming journey of self-discovery through hardship and loss to maturity, joy and true independence.

"White Oleander" opens in the U.S. and Canada on October 11, 2002. The Toronto Film Festival runs from September 5th through the 14th. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Pandora, a John Wells Production; "White Oleander," starring Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellweger. Directed by Peter Kosminsky from a screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue and based on the best-selling novel by Janet Fitch, "White Oleander" also stars Billy Connolly, Svetlana Efremova, Patrick Fugit, Cole Hauser and Noah Wyle. John Wells and Hunt Lowry are the producers; Kristin Harms, Stacy Cohen cohen
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, E.K. Gaylord II and Patrick Markey are the executive producers. Donald Graham Burt is the production designer; Elliot Davis, the director of photography; Chris Ridsdale is the editor. Music is by Thomas Newman. "White Oleander" will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  Time Warner Company, and internationally by Pandora, a division of Gaylord Films. This film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA MPAA
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 for "mature thematic elements concerning dysfunctional relationships, drug content, language, sexuality

and violence."

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