Flowers in the Attic
'Flowers in the Attic' is a story of the Dollanganger kids who, after the unexpected death of their father, are constrained to stay hidden in the attic of their merciless and pitiless grandmother.
21 April 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 December 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 October 1971, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
October 21, 2016
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 also psychologically coherent. It has a grip.
January 21, 2014
Frankly, the best Lifetime movies straddle that fine line between "totally engaging look at serious issues" and "overacted campy mess" very well, and "FitA" just didn't cut it. It was ... kinda boring, right?
January 20, 2014
It was adapted into a middling creepy film in 1987. Now Lifetime has remade it as a sharper creepy TV movie.
January 21, 2014
'80s pulp novel gets creepy with evil adults, incest.
January 17, 2014
The problem is [it] always sounds like it's more fun, or at least more kooky, than it actually plays onscreen.
January 20, 2014
The problem is not that it's just terrible, but that it's also no fun. At all.
January 17, 2014
All the actors are spot-on, even ones who have just a few scenes.
January 17, 2014
I was particularly delighted when the children figured out that their mother was trying to kill them with powdered rat poison sprinkled on donuts, but this should all be a lot more frightening - or at least more unsettling - than it winds up being.
November 25, 2015
All four films in this series based on the V.C. Andrews novels are among the dozens of offerings featured in the 2015 holiday gift guide at ReelBob.com.
January 17, 2014
Escape can't come too soon.
January 21, 2014
V.C. Andrews' popular and creepy 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic gets no favors from the scriptwriters in this latest adaptation.
January 21, 2014
The production moves at a brisk pace, and unlike the children's predicament, never feels claustrophobic.
