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Dominican Rep. Flowers in the Attic
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- Original title
- Flowers in the Attic
- Year
- 1987
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jeffrey Bloom. Novel: Virginia C. Andrews
- Cast
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Louise Fletcher
Victoria Tennant
Kristy Swanson- Jeb Stuart Adams
- Ben Ryan Ganger
- Lindsay Parker
- Marshall Colt
- Nathan Davis
- Brooke Fries
- Alex Koba
Leonard Mann- Bruce Neckels
- Gus Peters
- Clare Peck
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery. Drama. Horror | Psychological Drama. Family Relationships
- Movie Groups
- Virginia C. Andrews Adaptations | Flowers in the Attic
- Synopsis
- 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) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) 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 from what made Flowers in the Attic such a hugely popular book--namely, the incestuous sex that began between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). Instead, the movie insinuates incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does--not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest.
- Awards
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1987: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Supporting Actress.
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