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Flowers In The Attic [VHS] [1987]

VHS ~ Louise Fletcher
2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ryan Ganger
  • Directors: Jeffrey Bloom
  • Writers: Jeffrey Bloom, Virginia C. Andrews
  • Producers: Mike Rosenfeld, Sy Levin
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • VHS Release Date: 25 Sep 2000
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CJ06
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,203 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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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

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Four children are locked away in the attic of their grandparents' mansion to secure their mother's large inheritance. As the weeks turn to months the children weaken and, out of desperation, the two eldest manage to break out to discover the truth......

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time, 14 Sep 2003
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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars It gives you the story but that's all, 16 Aug 2001
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The video seemed to end even before the story had begun. You could not empathise with the characters or understand what they were going through because there were no great insights into the way they thought. There is nothing in this video that brings it even close to the standard of the book.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars No way as good as the books, 15 Dec 2000
I have read all the novels in the Flowers in the attic series and of all of them I loved the first book. The film is good and worth seeing if your a Virgina Andrews fan, but it didnt portray the true horror of what really happened to the two main characters in the book. But on the plus side, it had a very good cast and it was well acted.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
The film doesn't do the book justice. Out of the 2 film versions this one has better actors in it. The other version has actors that look too old and aren't anything like I... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2005

3.0 out of 5 stars A moving tale
When I first read Flowers in the attic, I became totally hooked on Virginia Andrew novels. I just had to read the sequels. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2004 by P. J. Parker

5.0 out of 5 stars Flowers in the attic
This book is excellent and I agreee with a previous review that the film doesn't do it justice. It is a book that will have you at the edge of your seat and sat up for hours good... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2004 by maria17864

1.0 out of 5 stars Flowers in the Attic
The video does not do the book justice at all. The whole storyline is changed around and vital events are omitted from the storyline. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2002 by Sandra Murphy

2.0 out of 5 stars Not quite up to the standard of the book
I have had the film for over a year now and have only watched it once, I feel that it is poorly modelled on the book. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant film portraying the horror of the situation
I'd read the books on which the video is modelled before. when i bought the video i was expecting it to not measure up to the books. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2000

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