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Flowers in the Attic occurs as 1979 novel by V.C. Andrews, deeply controversial because of its themes of incest, child abuse, neglect, and other taboo subjects. Inside 1987 it was made into the movie star Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, and Jeb Stuart Adams.
A plot of two a picture & a novel involves iv toddlers, Christopher, Cathy, & twins Cory & Carrie, world health organization come locked away inside an attic for foursome years by their widowed mother & their deeply religious grannie. At a start them come assured that their captivity might merely survive the short instance until their mother, disowned by her parents years earliest, works her way back into the effective graces of her flush, anxious father, however them shortly view to fear their gran, world health organization sets down coarse system & terrible penalisation. When period goes in, yet, a mother visits her kids additional seldom & seems unconcerned just about their failing health, when a grannie's obsession by having them's "sin" grows further perturbing. Shortly a mother ends to visit her babies altogether. Eventually a older tikes project an escape, lone to discover that their mother has remarried & moved out of a home in which her tykes keep close at hand been imprisoned. (A motion picture version differs slightly from either this ending.) A virtually all oft-remembered element of the novel is the sexual relationship that develops between an adolescent brother & sister, which has led to the novel's existence banned in certain areas at different times.
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Paper Flowers Fan site for the film and book. Pictures of Castle Hill, press kit, cover art and posters, soundtrack information, and rumors. The Washington Post: Flowers in the Attic Review by Richard Harrington. Hollywood Bitchslap: Flowers in the Attic Review, ratings, and viewer comments. DVD Verdict: Flowers In The Attic Review using courtroom and legal terminology, by Patrick Naugle. Horrordvds.com: Flowers in the Attic Review of the film and its DVD, with screen captures. Internet Movie Database: Flowers in the Attic (1987) Synopsis, cast and crew list, viewer comments and ratings, quotes, promotional information, and links. |
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