- Actors: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ryan Ganger
- Directors: Jeffrey Bloom
- Writers: Jeffrey Bloom, Virginia C. Andrews
- Producers: Charles W. Fries, Mike Rosenfeld, Sy Levin, Thomas Fries
- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Vci
- DVD Release Date: 7 Jun 2004
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004WIA0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 21,355 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews' classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular, namely the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) 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. The movie insinuates but does not make explicit 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, Amazon.com
DVD Description
Based on V.C. Andrews' best-seller, Flowers In The Attic is a shocking tale of greed, deprivation, incest and cruelty.
A tale of a family's desire to survive following the tragic death of the father. The only option for the mother is to take her four children to her family home where a bizarre and disturbing future awaits them.
Flowers In The Attic will leave you stunned...
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I agree that the film is not faithful to the book at all. For example, there are no fierce, barking dogs anywhere in the novel!! But it may still be worth watching for the horrid, dark atmosphere of Foxworth Hall given plenty of thunder & lightning treatment though. Just one more point that occurred to me: Cathy didn't seem as attractive in the film, and her relationship with Chris was as 'clean' as normal siblings. That was what killed it for me, personally.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This video was a complete let-down compared with the novel. Although I expected some scenes to be modified as is standard with dramatisations, I was not prepared for the entire modification of the ending. The producer brushed over some areas such as the scene between Cathy and Chris in the attic, which could have been to make the film available for a younger audience, however I felt that without this key aspect, you are left without an explanation for later events.
The pace in certain areas of the film goes too fast, so there is no build-up of tension as the story progresses. Corrine is also portrayed as semi-evil from the start, which is not in keeping with the text, where she is shown as a loving and much loved mother who only changes later, under the influence of her twisted father and his millions.
However, if you are simply looking for a way to pass a couple of hours, there are worse things to do than watch this, but anyone expecting anything half as riveting as the novel, don't waste your time or money.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I am a huge fan of the book but this film just doesnt follow it at all! Very disappointing. It doesnt include major scenes as said in the other reviews and it makes you shout at the tv screen! You question why certain things were not put in the film?? If your going to make film based on a book then you should do it properly, and it could have been done so easily! Dont even get me started on the ending! This film had so much potential but it failed dismaly! A remake is needed. My advice is read the book and stop there because it spoils your imagination.
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Waste of time and money
After recently finishing and enjoying the novel I was very excited when I found out a film had been made and immediately bought it. Read more
Published 5 months ago by bubbles22
Well thought out.
The settings were well thought out, taking us from the normal everyday life to the perfect location for a Gothic Horror. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. A. P. Platt
read the book instead!
i read flowers in the attic and couldnt put the book down. i loved reading every bit of it so i bought the dvd after finishing off the book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by gooselemon
So Much Worse Than The Book!
If it was just a film, this film would be very good. However, when compared to the book, it's terrible! Loads of the book was left out and the ending was changed completely! Read more
Published 13 months ago by cullenlover
TERRIBLE
An awful adaptation of a classic novel. This film should not even bare the same name. It has been edited and adapted in a way that completely cheapens the whole idea, looses all... Read more
Published 15 months ago by ann
Hm...
VCA was still alive when this movie was made (even playing the tiny little role of a window-washer), but the movie was released in 1987, so I'm not sure if VCA knew what was going... Read more
Published 16 months ago by M
What a Dissapointment!!!!!
Having been reccomended the book by a friend, i read it and every time i put it down i almost couldn't wait for the next time i picked it up to read some more. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2009 by Kim 1978
Flowers in the attic DVD
I watched this Dvd and really got into it - but half way through it just lost its flavour! The ending was weak and I just felt really disappointed that I had psyched myself up for... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by Julie Taylor
Disturbing and depressing!
Flowers in the attic is the story of four children who are confined to an attic and abandoned by their mother. Read more
Published on 8 July 2009 by Mr. A. J. Ralph
haven't read the book.
personally. i haven't read the book but just watching the film was good enough, alot of people are saying the film doesn't represent the book. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2008 by nikki
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