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Flowers In the Attic (1987)
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The classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love gets brought to the screen. When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant, L.A. Story) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. Sadly, the movie shies away...
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| Flowers In the Attic Movie Review by Jarrod (7/4/2009) |
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'Flowers in the Attic' is one of the surprisingly few adaptations of a VC Andrews novel. It retains the basic framework of the story, but shies away from its more controversial elements, notably the incestuous relationship between siblings Cathy and Christopher. The movie, for the most part, is rubbish, poorly acted and...
(complete Flowers In the Attic review by Jarrod)
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