Astrid Magnussen is een 15-jarig meisje uit Californië. Haar moeder Ingrid is een vrijzinnige dichter. Wanneer Barry Kolker in het leven van Ingrid komt, wordt ze verliefd op hem. Maar als hij haar hart breekt, vermoordt ze hem en verdwijnt ze voor de rest van haar leven achter de tralies. Astrid komt vervolgens van het ene in het andere weesgezin terecht.
Nee, helaas is White Oleander nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Art | Donald Graham Burt | Production Design |
| Directing | Peter Kosminsky | Director |
| Production | Patrick Markey | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Thomas Newman | Original Music Composer |
| Production | E.K. Gaylord II | Executive Producer |
| Production | John Wells | Producer |
| Writing | Janet Fitch | Novel |
| Camera | Elliot Davis | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tracy Underwood | Producer |
| Production | Stacy Cohen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kristin Harms | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ilyse A. Reutlinger | Producer |
| Production | Ellen Lewis | Casting |
| Production | Hunt Lowry | Producer |
| Editing | Chris Ridsdale | Editor |
| Writing | Mary Agnes Donoghue | Screenplay |
| Directing | Velvet Andrews-Smith | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Phil Robinson | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kaaren F. Ochoa | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Art Bartels | Key Grip |
| Camera | George Billinger III | "A" Camera Operator |
| Camera | Bruce Chimerofsky | Best Boy Grip |
| Lighting | Cricket Sloat | Assistant Chief Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Cary Fisher | "B" Camera Operator |
| Camera | Barnaby Shapiro | Second Assistant "B" Camera |
| Camera | Vivian Zink | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Bruce Robinson | Second Assistant "A" Camera |
| Camera | Ted Caloroso | First Assistant "B" Camera |
| Camera | David Galbraith | First Assistant "A" Camera |
| Lighting | Dayton Nietert | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Cleo Terrio | Dolly Grip |
| Lighting | James F. Cornick | Rigging Gaffer |
| Camera | Jeff Caples | Second Assistant "B" Camera |