From the IMDb:
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father, to the point of murder...
I found this ripe turd of a movie a few weeks ago in the $6.88 bin at Wal-Mart and couldn't pass it up. I remember reading Flowers In the Attic for the first time when I was about 12, and just devouring it. I wasn't expecting much of the movie, and I sure wasn't disappointed! It started out pretty faithful, but veered off towards the end after poor Cory went to the big powdered cookie in the sky. The acting was terrible, the editing was terrible, the makeup was terrible...but it still added up to a mildly amusing movie. I feel so ashamed, but I'll jiggered if I won't watch it again.
Word on the street is some company bought up the rights to the whole Dollanganger series, and plan on making a new FitA movie. Oh boy! One can only hope it's better than this one.
3 comments:
A remake would be awesome.
I have this movie too, Heather and enjoy watching it now and then. I love re-reading the book, too.
Did you catch V.C. Andrews' cameo in the film? She's the maid cleaning a window -- you see her in a shot from the outside of the house. Look carefully, it's fast.
A remake would be awesome.
I have this movie too, Heather and enjoy watching it now and then. I love re-reading the book, too.
Did you catch V.C. Andrews' cameo in the film? She's the maid cleaning a window -- you see her in a shot from the outside of the house. Look carefully, it's fast.
I did catch her! I forgot about it until after I watched, but I do remember seeing the maid in the window.
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