Flower In The Attic Movie Review

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.

Flower in the attic movie review. 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. 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. It keeps much of the key details but eliminates completely the themes that made the book a bestseller. What hunger games and twilight are for millennials the dollanganger series was for girls who grew up in the 80s and 90s.

Olivia is disgusted by the children she knows their mother victoria tennant and father were actually cousins and locks the brood in the attic. Based on a popular pulp novel flowers in the attic is a strange bird despite the story s iconic status. Fans of author v c. Ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c.

Now this film was re shot and re edited without the directors approval. 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. The acting is stiff the dialog stilted and production values are low. The kids then try to keep their spirits high in spite of their bleak situation.

Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds.