Flowers in the Attic
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63% Critic Match

Flowers in the Attic

Home sweet home is murder.

6.3 / 10 1987 1h 33mR English
DramaMysteryThrillerHorror

Storyline

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 their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.

Cast & Crew

Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher

Olivia Foxworth

Lead
Victoria Tennant

Victoria Tennant

Corrine Dollanganger

Kristy Swanson

Kristy Swanson

Cathy Dollanganger

Jeb Stuart Adams

Jeb Stuart Adams

Chris Dollanganger

Ben Ryan Ganger

Ben Ryan Ganger

Cory

Lindsay Parker

Lindsay Parker

Carrie

Nathan Davis

Nathan Davis

Grandfather

GP

Gus Peters

Caretaker

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jeffrey Bloom's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Flowers in the Attic is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker