"Harrison's Flowers," a gripping account of one woman's desperate yet determined search for her photojournalist husband believed by all his colleagues to have died in the Croatian civil war, is made all the more compelling by the recent kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. While the fictional story is much different than the tragically real one, Pearl's death underscores the danger and horrors war journalists must endure. Made more than two years ago and winding up its festival tour here in Santa Barbara, the film, to be released this month by Universal Focus, hits theaters at a propitious moment.

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