Flowers in the Attic 2014

     This film is based on a novel by V.C. Andrews.  The Dollanganger’s are a happy family.  Dad travels but he has a good job and mom stays at home.  There are four children, Christopher and Cathy are the oldest, Carrie and Cory are younger and they are twins.  Everything falls apart for the family when dad gets in a car accident and mom is having trouble paying the bills.  She decides the family will go to Virginia to live with her family.  The children learn their name is really Foxworth and their grandparents are very wealthy with a large estate.  Nothing turns out as they expected when they arrive in Virginia.  No one is there to meet them, they have to walk to the house, they will be living in the attic and they must not make noise.

     I found the basis for this film to be very implausible?  The large home is in Virginia and I wonder how the children were able to live in the attic in an area with high summer temperatures and humidity?  Mom and grandma are loony but wouldn’t the children rebel or escape especially after the way they are treated?  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

86 min, Drama directed by Deborah Chow with Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn, Kiernan Shipka, Mason Dye, Ava Telek, Maxwell Kovach, Dylan Bruce, Chad Willett, Beau Daniels.

Note:  Imdb 5.9 out of 10, 47% critic 19% audience on Rotten Tomatoes,

Speical Note:  This is a remake of of another film from 1987.  Kiernan Shipka plays Sally, the daughter of Don Draper on Man Men.