Flowers in the Attic

Starring:Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ryan Ganger, Lindsay Parker, Marshall Colt, Nathan Davis, Brooke Fries, Alex Koba, Leonard Mann (II), Bruce Neckels, Gus Peters, Clare Peck, Virginia C. Andrews
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

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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 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, the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 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. --Bret Fetzer

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Flowers in the Attic

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From back cover, "Corrine, widowed and penniless, moves with her four children into her wealthy, but nasty parent's mansion. To retain her presence in her fatehr's will, Corrine must keep the fact that she has children a secret, becasue her fatehr had disapproved of her marriage. Hiding her children in the attick, she slowly poisons them with arsenic-laced gingerbread cookies. Unfortunately, it isn't until one brother falls ill and dies, that the children discover their motehr's plot to re-marry and start a new life without them. Escaping from the attic during their mother's wedding reception, they run to freedom, but not before exposing the horrible truth about Corrine in front of the entire wedding party."

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Flowers in the Attic [Region 2]
Starring: Louise Fletcher , Victoria Tennant , Kristy Swanson , Jeb Stuart Adams , and Ben Ryan Ganger
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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