Flowers in the Attic | | Cast : | Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson | | Director : | Jeffrey Bloom | | Studio : | Anchor Bay Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 20, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | October 05, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 24, 2005 | | Summary | Every pre adolescent's first trashy book comes to life | Content
 | There are certain things in life that every woman who ever lived has gone through in junior high school: acne, bad hair, hitting puberty, and bad paperbacks specifically catering to the pre adolescent (now known as tweens) reader. They were designed to get us interested in reading, but looking back this was the scariest, let alone the cheapest, marketing tactic in history.
Sex always catches our attention, but incest? Yikes! This was before trash TV when incest was a dirty secret. This movie was bad, but let's face facts, people, the book (let alone all those following to this day) was a trashy story then and is a trashy story now. This movie was lousy, but the material they had to work with wasn't top notch. It's not even bad enough to be campy, like the books are. Still, something like this for me envokes nostalgia, as it started me reading a whole new sect of trashy books that I keep hiden under my mattress because I'm too intellectual to keep them on my shelves. Ha ha ha ... |
| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2005 | | Summary | More dramatics needed | Content
| I will have to agree with some of the other reviewers, that this movie was fluffed, and a little too careful with the production of this movie. I feel that the director could have definitely included the incestuous act, as it would add a little more spice to it. I mean it was interesting to the point where it made you not want to leave until you found out what was going to happen, but if you collect movies like most of us, and you will be watching this more than once, then it could use some excitement. Excellent story line, and in the beginning, how their father died and they had to resort to living back home, where she escaped from years ago.Now, because of the mom's incestuous relationship with the children's father, how the grandmother was going to punish them all for the mothers sins,including the mom. very sick. very interesting.At the end, I would have liked to see more reaction from the mother's wedding party when the children finally escape from the attic and tell everyone during the ceremony of the mom's marriage, how they were locked in the attic all that time and how the younger son was poisoned by his own mother, AND NOW HERE SHE IS GETTING MARRIED TO A MAN WHO HAD NO IDEA SHE EVEN HAD CHILDREN. The mom, falls off the balcony and dies, the grandmother never pays for what she's done and is still alive, and the groom, just stood there with a slightly shocked look on his face. COME ON??????! Needs to be more dramatic but over all very interesting plot and story. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 28, 2005 | | Summary | More Hacking Of The Story Than In The Movie | Content
| I read all of V.C. Andrews books pertaining to the Foxworth family, and I found them all top notch books. What happened with this movie was an act of total injustice. It seemed as though they tried to merge Flowers In The Attic With Petals On The Wind in a very haphazard way. Louise Fletcher turns in a terrible performance as the wicked grandmother who is supposed to torture the kids in the story, but it's pure fluff in this movie. Maybe she should've called on The Prophets to help her with this role. If Hollywood didn't want to be bothered with doing a movie for all 5 books in this series that's one thing, but get someone to not turn a marvelous piece of novel, and create slop for the pigs. I was disappointed with this version of the story as I feel that the director had no clue of what to do. I would even venture to say he didn't read the book. I would say the only time to watch this movie is if you can't afford a night out on the town, and there's nothing else on t.v. until "While You Were Sleeping". |
| Rating | | | Date | January 05, 2005 | | Summary | The Flowers Have Wiltered! | Content
| First off, I had to laugh at one of the earlier reviews that said this was based on a true story. Uh, no it's not, although I SUPPOSE it's possible that somewhere in the world, there were four children forced to live in an attic so their mother could inherit millions. Anyway, this movie is poorly edited, badly written, and unimaginatively directed, with only a few flashes of inspired acting. However, having said that, the movie is also very engrossing and involving, and like a bad accident, you can't take your eyes off of it once you start watching. It's clear from the choppy editing and short running time that scenes were removed, such as the incestuous love affair between the two oldest siblings and scenes involving the mother and her fiancee. How unfortunate that the DVD doesn't feature those deleted scenes... perhaps the movie would have been better if they hadn'd been deleted. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 17, 2004 | | Summary | If you're familiar with her work... | Content
| If you're a VC Andrews fan, be aware that this movie will not have the amount of enchantment that the books had. This movie was made from a series of five books and can not possibly capture all the events in just 90 minutes.The events had to be rushed in order to get to the main plot of the children in the attic and what they went through. In my opinion, things went at the right speed to convey the importance of each thing happening. If you've read the series, be prepared to see that this is will not live up to that. Try to have an open mind. For me, the different ending was sort of cool. It was different and added excitement. It was something new and interesting for a book I had alreaady read. I'm glad they did that. I would just have liked to see a more modern portrayal with better quality. All in all, a new adventure for loyal fans. |
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