| Flowers in the Attic | 
 enlarge | Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Actors: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ryan Ganger
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  138 reviews
Sales Rank: 3689
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: ANBDV11325D
UPC: 013131132595
EAN: 0013131132595
ASIN: B000059PP1
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1987
Release Date: April 24, 2001
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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
Product Description
After a tragic accident leaves them fatherless four kids return to their mothers mysterious family mansion hoping for an inheritance. But when they are imprisoned & abandoned by their evil grandmother they must survive another nightmare. Features: widescreen theatrical trailers. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 10/05/2004 Starring: Victoria Tennant Louise Fletcher Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jeffrey Bloom
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 I don't know why they even bothered making the movie October 17, 2008
If anyone wants to know what the book would have been like without the incest, they should watch this. It is basically an excuse to watch children being tortured and starved for an hour and a half. There's no point other than that. The kids don't undergo much of a transformation. They get sickly and dirty and cynical and that`s about it. At least in the book, they made devastating decisions that drastically altered their lives. In the movie, they're just acted upon. I think they scream in horror a lot. I mean, it's horrible what they went through but you can't just have kids be tortured for 90 minutes and call it a movie. Something more than that has to happen.
The uncle/niece incest is still in there, of course, and there is incestuous innuendo between Cathy and Chris, but it's even more creepy than in the book because it's not developed well. It's just put in there for shock value and so that people can go, "Oooh, what's going on here? I don't like the look of this." But more than anything, their relationship is just too bizarre to be believable.
And on top of that, the ending is changed. I understand that the book's ending was a bit frustrating, but this ending is just contrived.
The acting is pretty cheesy and Chris looks way too old to be 14-17.
I would not recommend this to anyone who loved the book. As for those who haven't read the book, I guess it has some merit as 80's camp/horror (not as much of a classic as Friday the 13th or anything, though), but it's pretty much unwatchable.
Not Louise Fletcher's best July 20, 2008
The book was fabulous...the movie was not!
However, I still like the movie because I love Louise Fletcher.
Unfortunately she was ONE of the reasons I didn't like it. I just expected so much more from her.
The rest of the acting was borderline camp.
With all of that said...I still bought the film and I'm sure I'll watch it again.
 WE GET IT... NOW GIVE IT A REST!!! April 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, now I understand that alot of the people who read the book first and then watched the movie were dissapointed; as the movie was not like the book at all. That being said, the movie is what made me want to read the book. I'll be the first to say that the book and its series are excellent, but I love the movie too. This movie came out when I was seven years old and it terrified me and made me cry (poor Cory). At the age of seven, I was so enraged at their mother's behavior I wanted to break the television set. Even today in my late 20s, I still find myself wanting to inflict damage on my TV. Both the book and the movie stirred up sadness, anger, and bewilderment at how people who you trust and who are supposed to love you can behave in such a callous and hateful way. In my opinion, I think both the book and the movie succeeded in bringing out these emotions. So for those who are bias and in favor of the book, sit down and watch the movie again and see how it makes you feel. Maybe you'll find you kinda like it.
WOW February 13, 2008
I gave this movie a high rating only because it brings back memories of my childhood. I saw the movie before I read the book, which made the movie like a watered down made-for-tv thing. I don't know if people were ready for the REAL Flowers in the Attic back when the movie was made. However,I used to love this movie!
Flowers in the Attic DVD January 15, 2008
Good movie however if you can watch the DVD first and then read the book. The movie was different than the book especially the ending.
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