Flowers in the Attic (1987)

Cast

Kristy Swanson
as Cathy
Louise Fletcher
as Grandmother
Victoria Tennant
as Mother
Jeb Stuart Adams
as Chris

Get more information about Flowers in the Attic (1987) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Drama Mystery Thriller

5.7 / 10

After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by the grandmother, and their mother, who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritance she plans to win back from her dying father, to the point of murder...

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Comments on this trailer
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omari london

what did she do with those pair of scissors - @Friday, August 24, 2018 11:04 PM

Ana Torres

The book was much better than both movies made. They need to remake it and leave the story as it was really told. - @Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:25 AM

Jim Sitz

I love the Grandmother in this movie. - @Tuesday, June 12, 2018 9:45 PM

The Hash Smoking Stoner

Sup little nigga? Here's some incest for ya. - @Sunday, April 9, 2017 4:40 AM

Muirmaiden

This would have been a much better movie had the studio left it alone. Instead, they butchered it so that it could receive a PG-13 rating from the MPAA. It was shot as an R-Rated film, included nudity, incest, and slightly more violence than the theatrical cut. The ending was also different; in fact, there were three endings in total and the one where the mother is killed was filmed by another director because the studio insisted that the mother pay for her crimes. Director and screenwriter Jeffrey Bloom refused to have any part of the new ending, he was fed up with all the studio's interfering with the production and editing. It was the last feature film he ever directed. I don' t know if the deleted scenes still exist, but I hope the original director's cut will be released on DVD. - @Tuesday, November 15, 2016 4:53 AM

Willahelm Powers

Hillary would be perfect for the role of Grandma Attic. - @Saturday, October 8, 2016 10:32 AM

Cmel F.

why people get scared or grossed out watching that movie, i mean is creepy and wird and twisted of course, but not really an horror film, and such things are even much worse happens in real... - @Tuesday, April 28, 2015 8:01 AM

Maggie Koch

The grandmother seems like a religious homicidal lunatic in this. What a wicked, abusive woman. - @Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:31 PM

rolli226

wo bekommt man den DVD auf deutsch zu kaufen - @Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:10 AM

DJMOBY100

That was the music from Children of the Corn, lol - @Saturday, April 19, 2014 5:48 AM

Jose Luis Lescano

WORST MOVIE EVER!!! - @Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:40 AM

CARNEICE

This movie was a TOTAL WASTE of my time!!!!! It sucked compared to the original movie. Where was the Justice For The Children? Don't waste your time. - @Monday, January 20, 2014 4:12 AM

Kadey Nicole

The music at the beginning is freaking creepy - @Thursday, January 16, 2014 9:32 PM

Dark Angel

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDUQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.time.com%2F2013%2F11%2F15%2Fwatch-the-trailer-for-lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic%2F&ei=HnCJUrWvEdCUhQevy4HICQ&usg=AFQjCNH-pYBN6cG_eTyvS-c_h76MG6bL9Q&sig2=EWPAyf1epkFTu1Rb_HvHPg&bvm=bv.56643336,d.ZG4 - @Monday, November 18, 2013 1:44 AM

trey harris

isnt this based on a true story. because the author had a spine operation in her doctor told him about his life after the death of his father and his mother trying to rekindle a new marraige and kil her four children from the previous marraige. - @Friday, October 18, 2013 1:51 PM

bleucheezy

You = MISANDRIST. Look it up, bitch. - @Monday, October 14, 2013 7:32 AM

20AmandaL

An incestuous bitch. - @Friday, October 4, 2013 6:46 PM

TheMoviedude2012

Im rereading the books by VC Andrew's again!! - @Sunday, September 15, 2013 12:38 PM

Mariam

i read the books :D reading book 2 again! So addictive! i knew there was a movie of it! I just knew it! - @Wednesday, September 4, 2013 2:34 PM

Melissa Castro

They are gonna do a remake they already cast the mother and grandmother and are currently casting the children. They said its gonna follow the book and that incest is gonna be a big part of the movie. - @Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:21 PM

Melissa Castro

IT'S TRUE!!!!!!! There's gonna be a remake and the mother is already cast. They're currently looking to cast the children. AND they said this time the script is gonna follow the book and the incest is gonna be part of the movie!!!!!! - @Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:13 PM

UMadBro?

my mom is watching it right now... - @Sunday, August 11, 2013 1:39 AM

UMadBro?

my mom is watching it right now... - @Sunday, August 11, 2013 1:39 AM

xVividTangerine

My mom bought this whole series for me when I was in 6th grade. She thought they were mystery novels. - @Wednesday, July 24, 2013 1:46 AM

M.J. Moore

God, what this movie could have been. The only things they got right were the house and the casting of Louise Fletcher as the grandmother. Hopefully the rumoured remake will shit all over this piece of dreck. - @Sunday, July 14, 2013 9:49 AM

Irene Prude

Was this movie about incest?? - @Monday, July 8, 2013 6:23 AM

Katie Shady

Ah then, sorry for the spoiler, but yes. - @Monday, July 8, 2013 12:21 AM

TwiggyLeaf

what really for real? I'm only halfway into the second book, do you find that out later? - @Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:30 AM

Padme Amidala

For all of you that didn't know, the movie was originally directed by Wes Craven and because of his high content of incest themes, they decided to get another director instead. Ironic how they have a problem with incest, yet that was the entire point of the book. - @Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:47 PM

clauditorium

Power Vegomatic? - @Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:46 AM

Katie Shady

That's the Movie's view of it. However in the novels, my statement stands. In the books she planned to get them sick and sneak them out one by one. - @Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:36 PM

Randall Stratton

they do sample some of the music from children of the corn but the rest is from the movie itself - @Saturday, May 4, 2013 6:30 AM

Ashley Flores

I wad shocked with the last book. Couldn't help but cry for so long till I could finish the last pages lol - @Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:11 AM

Henrique B

That song reminds me of Children Of The Corn. Is it the same theme ? - @Saturday, April 6, 2013 4:11 PM

xoTrustandBelievexo

Money be makin them bitches crazy. - @Thursday, April 4, 2013 5:24 PM

Fox Makeba

Why does this film via it's trailer already remind me of the first clock tower game? Deffo winks and dodges to this film, I think that game is... - @Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:57 PM

Crystal Gonzales

The mother hardly had any plans to work. It's like the daughter said, she didn't want the kids to be out of the attic. She wanted them dead. - @Friday, March 8, 2013 10:23 PM

willisapril

I've seen that Mansion it is Ipswich Massachusetts and it is really creepy looking - @Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:33 AM

Katie Shady

No, it's about a mother and her children Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie who lose their father, their mother can't get a job so she seeks to win back the approval of her grandfather so she can inherit his millions when he dies. Her mother agrees to take them in but they have to live in the attic, they are not allowed to go outside. Their mother loves the children very much... but makes many... mistakes along the way... - @Monday, February 18, 2013 4:45 PM

Katie Shady

Oh i absolutely adore this series, the movie doesn't do it justice. - @Friday, February 8, 2013 3:18 PM

austin opheim

WHY G FRO - @Friday, February 8, 2013 1:20 AM

Pierce Peel

THEY KILLED G FRO - @Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:09 AM

Pierce Peel

THEY KILLED G FRO - @Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:09 AM

NYCBlonde

Stay klassy with all that "spread your legs" and "bitch" language--yeah, you don't sound misogynistic at ALL! - @Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:26 AM

sanchez aronica

actually it's a mother who lost her husband and don't want her kids so she locks them in the attack!:( - @Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:58 PM

slambamfamjam

no, she's beautiful. sooo what do you look like, Lauren? because that was really rude of you to say. are you ugly perhaps? - @Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:41 PM

Lauren Hadlow

Is it just me or does the girl who plays Cathy look like a guy sometimes.... - @Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:41 AM

Cori collazos

For the fans interested in learning more about this novel, I am working on a blog, you can come and see it, just google "flowers in the attic characters", and you"ll find it. - @Sunday, January 6, 2013 3:16 PM

window eye when do i

can't wait till i see flowers in the cabbage - @Monday, December 3, 2012 3:46 AM

FanYay

(inhales) It's about four siblings who are abandoned by their mother to live with their grandmother. The children are kept in the attic to live in secret (because of their dying grandfather). While in the attic, the two eldest children, experience puberty and due to their isolation, they become attracted to one another. (exhales) - @Saturday, November 24, 2012 3:57 AM