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Flowers in the Attic (1987)

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Flowers in the Attic (1987)	label	Flowers in the Attic (1987)
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)	comment	Flowers in the Attic is the 1987 film adaptation of the 1979 novel of the same name by V. C. Andrews.From the outside, the Dollangangers appear to be the perfect family: happily married parents Chris and Corrine and four beautiful children Christopher, Cathy, Carrie, and Cory. But when father Christopher is killed on the night of his thirty-sixth birthday, the family is quickly financially devastated. Lack of savings and Corrine's inability to find work mean that they must sell their possessions and then their house. Soon there is only one place left for them to go.Corrine takes her four children to Foxworth Hall, her childhood home, to live with her parents. Years ago her father disinherited her over her marriage. She plans to win her way back into his heart so that she can provide for her children. The grandmother permits them to stay on one condition: the children must live in a secluded upstairs room with only the attic for extra space to live and play.And it all goes downhill from there as physical and emotional abuse, the lure of money, and an entire attic full of ugly family secrets all come into play.Another film adaptation was produced for the Lifetime network in 2014.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Corrine is whipped to atone for her time spent "living in sin." Seventeen lashes for her seventeen years of marriage.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Christopher is 14 in the book and Cathy twelve (though they're imprisoned for three years). The film ages them up to fifteen or sixteen.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: V. C. Andrews appears very briefly washing a window.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Not really that big, but definitely screwed up.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Cathy. Corrine aspires to become this again.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cookies, or more specifically, the arsenic-laced sugar topping.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Used by the Grandmother in her sermons and lectures, proclaiming the children the "Devil's Spawn."
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: With arsenic laced desserts.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Their father is dead and their mother just flat out abandoned them.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Christopher wants to be a doctor, which apparently involves knowing everything there is to know about everything in the world. It gets to the point where Cathy shuts him up with a snide remark.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: The man's name is Christopher, with his wife Corrine and there four children; Christopher Jr., Cathy, and twins Cory and Carrie.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Grandmother breaks an ornament Cathy's father gave her For the Evulz. She actually didn't do it in the book because Cathy had to leave the ornament behind when they moved.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: The grandparents are only known as The Grandmother and The Grandfather. In the film, the father's name is never given.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: Done more directly in the film, where Grandmother knocks Cathy down and cuts her hair off.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: The children are slowly fed arsenic to get rid of them.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Cathy, Chris, and Carrie all escape the attic, Chris gives the Evil Matriarch Olivia a well-deserved beatdown, their greedy, abusive mother, Corrine, is brutally and embarrassingly killed on her wedding day, and they all survived and thrived. However, aside from their baby brother Cory being dead (and in all likelihood his remains aren't retrievable), their grandmother more or less gets away with her crimes, they are still traumatized by losing their brother and the betrayal of their mother and grandmother, and Carrie suffered permanent damage from her repeated arsenic poisonings.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Corrine in the film. She does die in the third book but in a fire.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: A rather notorious example of both Franchise Killer and Executive Meddling. Corrine is killed on her wedding day when Cathy drives her over a balcony, where she's hanged by her own veil. Corrine is a prominent character in the remaining books of the series and killing her off in the first film effectively curtails any future installments, but the producers felt that audiences wouldn't be satisfied without getting to see her get her comeuppance.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Corrine was personally poisoning the cookies that her children ate.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4dd46feb	type	Polar Opposite Twins
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_4dd46feb	comment	Polar Opposite Twins: Cory is quiet, polite and gentle. Carrie is loud, adamant and forceful.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Grandmother punishes severely for the most minor infractions, including simply existing as the products of incest.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book, Olivia has gray hair. Plus she is described as tall and mannish, with a square jaw. In the movie, Olivia has red hair, manicured nails, and make-up.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The movie is set in the 1980s while the book was set in the 1950s. As a result Corrine going back to her rich family for money instead of finding a job herself is a little strange since there were less housewives and stay-at-home mothers in the 1980s than there were in the 1950s. Also Chris and Cathy are aged up to around 15 and 16 (they are 14 and 12 respectively in the book) so one wonders why they didn't work either. Although it should be noted that in the book, Corrine was heavily in credit card debt, which would have been more common in the 1980s than the 1950s.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Cory and Carrie don't speak good "'cause Momma don't like them no more."
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Corrine becomes one.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Cathy calls her oldest brother Christopher throughout the whole film, which comes across as a little strange. It's not explained that since the father was Christopher as well, he was called Chris while Jr. was Christopher.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Corrine appears to be jealous of her husband's attention to Cathy from the beginning of the film.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first shot we see of Corrine involves her looking at herself in the mirror, instead of her daughter who is right next to her.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: The Grandmother.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_91b0421b	type	Loser Son of Loser Dad
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_91b0421b	comment	Loser Kids Of Loser Parents: The grandmother thinks that the kids, especially Chris and Cathy, are somehow incestuous by nature because they were inbred.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Corrine Foxworth and her mother Olivia Foxworth are the abusive Evil Matriarchs of the Dollanganger family.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Christopher will not tolerate any criticism or questioning of their mother.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Grandmother has grey hair in the books (and it turns out to be a wig) but is red-haired in the film.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Corrine turns from loving mother to uncaring shrew.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Unlike the original book, which was set 1950s, this movie is set in the 1980s.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: And Grandparent. First, the grandmother is this to both Corrine and her four grandchildren. Then, it's not long at all before Corrine herself to start acting this way towards them.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: The children's attic prison initially comes across as this when they are fed regularly and frequently given expensive presents. It becomes a nothing more than a cage, however, when their mother increasingly neglects them.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Corrine after being called out for her neglect of the children:
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: The scene with the father giving Cathy her music box when she's alone in her bed, topped off with giving her a ring in a posture that looks very like a proposal. Cathy and Christopher's relationship is relegated to subtext at best.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The film is only 90 minutes long. As such, a lot of the emotional drama of the novel as the children are slowly worn away by their attic prison is glossed over with bits of narration.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_c2cedbfc	type	Big "NO!"
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_c2cedbfc	comment	Big "NO!": Cathy when Grandmother knocks the music box off the mantelpiece. This was also Cathy's reaction to when her father died.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Corrine quickly becomes this when she gets a taste of the good life again.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Of the super-religious type. The Grandmother takes the incestuous relationship her daughter had committed, and used it as an excuse to starve, abuse, lie, blackmail, dehumanize children, and commit outright murder, among other things. Also, it is mentioned once that the grandfather feels like he is entitled to act however he wants and do whatever he wants because he funded a church.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_d935ee2f	type	Innocent Blue Eyes
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: Initially played straight with the Dollanganger family, but eventually subverted as the family breaks down.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Deconstructed. Corrine comes from vast wealth and gave it all up to marry her husband but once he's dead she won't work and returns to her family, hoping to be rich again. She ends up trying to kill off her own children just to get her inheritance.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Chris and Cathy become surrogate parents for their much younger twin siblings Cory and Carrie. They called it a game, with Chris as the daddy, Cathy as the mommy and Cory and Carrie as the children. It becomes more serious when it is made clear that their real mother doesnâ€™t seem to want them any more.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: At the beginning Christopher, Sr. is killed on the night of his 36th birthday.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: A line from Cathy's narration, "I got a job to put Chris through medical school". And what kind of job would an uneducated teenage girl get that would pay for medical school?
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_fb9e2ffd	type	Team Pet
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_fb9e2ffd	comment	Team Pet: Renamed Fred in the film.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_ff7e9adf	type	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Initially played straight with the Dollanganger family, but eventually subverted as the family breaks down.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Flowers in the Attic (1987) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: When Cory becomes very ill, it's the grandmother who insists he be taken to the hospital.
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	Flowers in the Attic (1987)	hasFeature	A Taste of the Lash / int_1f9611d4
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