Flowers in the Attic
After the sudden death of their father, four of the Dollanganger children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother (Ellen Burstyn) when being coerced to stay hidden in the attic.
1 June 1970, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 October 1971, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
21 April 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
7 December 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 July 1965, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
29 January 1970, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
January 21, 2014
The production moves at a brisk pace, and unlike the children's predicament, never feels claustrophobic.January 21, 2014
'80s pulp novel gets creepy with evil adults, incest.January 17, 2014
Escape can't come too soon.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
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.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 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 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 17, 2014
All the actors are spot-on, even ones who have just a few scenes.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.