Flowers in the Attic - Flowers of the night
| Movie | |
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| German title | Flowers in the Attic - Flowers of the night |
| Original title | Flowers in the Attic |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Deborah Chow |
| script | Jeffrey Bloom |
| production |
Damian Ganczewski Harvey Kahn |
| music | Mario Grigorov |
| camera | Miroslaw Baszak |
| cut | Jamie Alain |
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Flowers in the Attic - Flowers of the night (Original title: Flowers in the Attic ) is an American television film by the station Lifetime from 2014. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by VC Andrews from 1979. The film drama is after Thriller Flowers of the Night from 1987 is the second film adaptation of the novel and is based much more closely on the novel than the first film adaptation. Ellen Burstyn and Heather Graham can be seen in the lead roles .
action
The United States in the 1950s: Corinne once married her only marginally older Uncle Christopher, which is why she was rejected and disinherited by her wealthy father. The marriage to Christopher had four children. When Christopher dies in an accident, Corinne is forced to return to her parents' spacious estate. With this move, Corinne wants to win back the favor and trust of her seriously ill father so that he can use her as sole heir again. For this, however, he is not allowed to know anything about the existence of the four children, so that they are quartered in the attic of the house and are not allowed to leave it. The children's grandmother provides them with the most necessary things, but also shows them her total dislike and does not shrink from being hit with a whip.
The children use self-made artificial flowers to prepare the attic as a garden, while their mother's regular visits at the beginning are becoming increasingly rare. At first loving and trusting their mother, the children began to have doubts about Corinne's motives as the days of imprisonment in the attic turn into weeks, months, and even years. The two older children Cathy and Chris take care of the five-year-old Cory and Carrie. As they get older, teenagers discover sexual feelings for one another.
When the mother lets Chris and Cathy out at a party to secretly watch, they discover that their mother is having an affair with the family lawyer, Bart Winslow. The mother's visits are becoming increasingly rare. Eventually little Cory falls seriously ill and vomits for hours. At the urging of Cathy and the consent of his grandmother, Corinne takes him to the hospital. The next day, the mother informs the other children that her brother died of pneumonia and is already buried.
Chris succeeds in copying a key. He and Cathy plan to flee the window with a rope, although there is now an electric fence. Chris finds out that the mother no longer lives in the house and that the grandfather died seven months ago. When the children's mouse dies while nibbling on a muffin, they realize that their little brother has been poisoned and that the same fate is destined for them. With a little money gathered around the house, the three of them dare to escape. In the final scene of the film, they are on a train heading for Florida. It remains to be seen whether the mother or grandmother is responsible for the poison - grandmother brought the muffins and knew about the poison, but claims it was the mother.
publication
The film first aired in the US on January 18, 2014 on Lifetime . The premiere reached 6.06 million viewers and thus a rating of 1.9 among 18 to 49 year olds.
The film had its television premiere in Germany on November 15, 2014 on VOX , reaching 1.05 million viewers (0.51 million 14- to 49-year-olds) which corresponded to a market share of 4.5 and 3.4% respectively.
reception
The film received mostly mixed reviews. On Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 49/100 based on 22 reviews, and on Rotten Tomatoes , 47 percent of the 19 reviews were positive. TV Spielfilm judged the film to be “great crazy trash ”, young people's books meet horror novels and that “in the spirit of the 50s”.
Ellen Burstyn was both the primetime Emmy Awards in 2014 and at the Critics' Choice Television Awards 2014 as best supporting actress in a TV movie or miniseries nominated. Film editor Jamie Alain received another nomination for the 2014 Canadian Cinema Editors Awards .
Sequels
On May 26, 2014, the sequel Petals on the Wind was released in the United States , again based on a novel by VC Andrews, Like Blossoms in the Wind . Ellen Burstyn and Heather Graham can be seen again in the main roles , while the teenage actors have been replaced by Rose McIver , Wyatt Nash and Bailey De Young due to the plot set ten years later .
Lifetime Television announced two more sequels for 2015, If There Be Thorns (based on VC Andrews 'novel Thorns of Fortune ) and Seeds of Yesterday (based on VC Andrews' novel Shadows of the Past ). If There Be Thorns first aired on April 5, 2015, Seeds of Yesterday on April 12, 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ tvbythenumbers.com , accessed November 19, 2014
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Primetime Check November 15, 2014 , accessed on November 17, 2014
- ^ Flowers in the Attic . In: Metacritic.com . Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ^ Flowers in the Attic . In: RottenTomatoes.com . Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 24/2014, page 40
- ↑ Petals-Wind-Sequels coming , English, accessed on November 19, 2014