Flower In The Attic Movie Review

The kids then try to keep their spirits high in spite of their bleak situation.

Flower in the attic movie review.

Incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible. Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds. Fans of author v c. Flowers both the book and the new movie is completely absurd if you want to gauge the absurdity just know that one of the darkest secrets in the narrative involves a doughnut but somehow.

The rags to riches story appealed to our fantasy the brother sister incest made it verboten. What hunger games and twilight are for millennials the dollanganger series was for girls who grew up in the 80s and 90s. The acting is stiff the dialog stilted and production values are low. Andrews controversial cult classic novel flowers in the attic tells the story of the dollanganger kids who after the unexpected death of their father are coerced to stay hidden in the attic of their ruthless grandmother.

Andrews book of the same name may protest. Ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c. Based on a popular pulp novel flowers in the attic is a strange bird despite the story s iconic status. It keeps much of the key details but eliminates completely the themes that made the book a bestseller.

Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother.