Flowers in the Attic

Ben Ryan Ganger

Louise Fletcher

Victoria Tennant

Kristy Swanson

Jeb Stuart Adams

Lindsay Parker

Marshall Colt

Nathan Davis

Brooke Fries

Alex Koba

Leonard Mann

Bruce Neckels

Gus Peters

Clare Peck

Virginia C. Andrews

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What is 'Flowers in the Attic' about?

Penniless after the death of her husband, Corrine Dollanganger (Victoria Tennant) and her four children -- teenagers Chris Jr. (Jeb Stuart Adams) and Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and 5-year-old twins Cory (Ben Ryan Ganger) and Carrie (Lindsay Parker) -- are forced to move back with her estranged parents, Malcolm (Nathan Davis) and Olivia (Louise Fletcher), in their palatial mansion. However, the children are immediately shut up in a bedroom just below the attic and forbidden to leave the room, play outside, or do anything that would alert their grandfather, or anyone else, to their existence. Meanwhile, Corrine is working hard to win back her father's love and regain her inheritance...regardless of the lengths she might have to take.

Is 'Flowers in the Attic' based on a book?

Yes. Flowers in the Attic is also a 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, the first of five novels in the Dollanganger series by American novelist Cleo Virginia 'V.C.' Andrews. The novel was adapted for the film by American film-maker Jeffrey Bloom. A remake, also titled Flowers in the Attic, was released in 2014.