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Penniless after the death of her husband, Corrine Dollanganger (Victoria Tennant) and her four children—teenagers Chris Jr. (Jeb Stuart Adams) and Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and 5-year-old twins Cory (Ben Ryan Ganger) and Carrie (Lindsay Parker)—are forced to move back with her estranged parents, Malcolm (Nathan Davis) and Olivia (Louise Fletcher), in their palatial mansion. However, the children are immediately shut up in a bedroom just below the attic and forbidden to leave the room, play outside, or do anything that would alert their grandfather, or anyone else, to their existence. Meanwhile, Corrine is working hard to win back her father's love and regain her inheritance ...regardless of the lengths she might have to take.
Flowers in the Attic is also a 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, the first of five novels in the Dollanganger series by American novelist Cleo Virginia "V.C." Andrews. The novel was adapted for the film by American film-maker Jeffrey Bloom. A remake, also titled Flowers in the Attic (2014), was released in 2014.
It's explained early in the movie that Corrine married her own uncle Chris Sr (Marshall Colt), younger brother to her father, and so her Malcolm views her marriage as unholy incest and Olivia sees her four children abominations. In the book, Chris Sr. is actually Corrine's half-uncle. Malcolm's father remarried very late in life and had Chris, who was then Malcolm's half brother. Chris Sr. was only three years older than Corrine.
It's not well-explained in the movie. From the book, it's learned that the father's job require him to travel a lot and that he was killed in a car accident driving back home from travels on his 36th birthday.
Chris sneaks downstairs to find money or jewelry so that he, Cathy, and Carrie can escape Foxworth Hall. He overhears Corrine and Bart (Leonard Mann) making plans for their wedding tomorrow. The next morning, when the Grandmother comes to check on them, Chris knocks her out with a newel post. While the guests are arriving for the wedding, the three children sneak downstairs, but Cathy refuses to leave until she tells the Grandfather what their mother has been doing, only to find that the Grandfather has already died several months ago. Chris finds a copy of his will, stating that, should it ever be proven that Corrine had children from her first marriage, even after he's dead, she will be disinherited. Realizing that their mother never meant for them to leave the attic, they crash the wedding, announcing to everyone who they are. Corrine dismisses them as an evil prank but, when Cathy hands her one of the arsenic-laden cookies and tells her to eat it, Corrine backs away, slapping at the cookie. In her struggle to get away from the cookie, Corrine falls off the balcony and crashes through the pergola below. Her wedding dress becomes caught, and she essentially hangs herself. In the final scene, as the Grandmother looks out the window, the three children walk hand-in-hand away from the mansion. In a voiceover, Cathy explains that they did manage to survive on their own, although Carrie was never quite healthy. She wonders whether the Grandmother is still alive and awaiting her return.
Besides Flowers in the Attic (1979), there are Petals on the Wind (1980), If There Be Thorns (1981), Seeds of Yesterday (1984), and Garden of Shadows (1986).
Firstly, the novel opens before the twins are born and details the happy home life of the family in several chapters. Also, the reason for the father's death is explicitly stated: a traffic accident upon returning home from a business travel. In the novel, they go the gandparents' house by train (not by bus as we see in the film) and the only persons knowing that the children live in the grandparents' house are the mother and the grandmother, while in the film the servants also know this fact. In the novel, it is stated that the mother married her "half-uncle", while in the film only the word "uncle" is used. In the novel, Chris is 14 years old and Cathy is 12 years old, much younger than we see in the film. Therefore, in the novel, we observe them trying to deal with the changes coming along with puberty and their discovery of their sexual identity. It is also notable that the novel includes some incestuous tendencies between Chris and Cathy (especially coming from Chris), while we do not see them in the movie. In the novel, teaching the twins how to read and write. Reading lots of books and watching TV are among the pastimes that the children use, while in the film, only handicrafts are depicted. Also, in the novel, Cathy and Chris escape from the house through the roof one night and they swim in a lake, while in the film Chris has to climb back up as soon as he gets on the ground. In the novel, the grandmother does not cut Cathy's hair, she pours tar on it (because she shows her naked body to Chris). Cathy washes her hair many times to get rid of the tar. In the novel, the children never have face-to-face confrontation with the grandfather like they do in the film. The endings differ greatly: In the novel, it is not the mother and the grandmother that poison the children, it is only the mother without the knowledge of the grandmother. The children do discover this fact, but they do not confront their mother in her wedding, they do not cause her to die by being hung. They simply leave the house (They manage this using the wooden copy of the door key that they make, rather than breaking the door). Before leaving the house, they systematically steal money from their mother's room using the same key, which we do not see in the film. After escaping, they do not even go to the police about the event, they just want to leave behind everything; the house, their mother; and they want to start a new life.
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- How long is Flowers in the Attic?1 hour and 33 minutes
- When was Flowers in the Attic released?November 20, 1987
- What is the IMDb rating of Flowers in the Attic?5.7 out of 10
- Who stars in Flowers in the Attic?
- Who wrote Flowers in the Attic?
- Who directed Flowers in the Attic?
- Who was the composer for Flowers in the Attic?
- Who was the producer of Flowers in the Attic?Sy Levin and Thomas Fries
- Who was the executive producer of Flowers in the Attic?
- Who was the cinematographer for Flowers in the Attic?Frank Byers and Gil Hubbs
- Who was the editor of Flowers in the Attic?
- Who are the characters in Flowers in the Attic?Olivia Foxworth, Corrine, Cathy, Chris, Cory, Carrie, Father, and Bart Winslow
- What is the plot of Flowers in the Attic?Children are hidden away under an attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
- How much did Flowers in the Attic earn at the worldwide box office?$15.2 million
- How much did Flowers in the Attic earn at the US box office?$15.2 million
- What is Flowers in the Attic rated?PG-13
- What genre is Flowers in the Attic?Drama, Mystery, and Thriller
- How many awards has Flowers in the Attic won?1 award
- How many awards has Flowers in the Attic been nominated for?2 nominations
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