Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Louise Fletcher | ... | Grandmother | |
| Victoria Tennant | ... | Mother | |
| Kristy Swanson | ... | Cathy | |
| Jeb Stuart Adams | ... | Chris | |
| Ben Ryan Ganger | ... | Cory (as Ben Ganger) | |
| Lindsay Parker | ... | Carrie | |
| Marshall Colt | ... | Father | |
| Nathan Davis | ... | Grandfather | |
| Brooke Fries | ... | Flower Girl | |
| Alex Koba | ... | John Hall | |
| Leonard Mann | ... | Bart Winslow | |
| Bruce Neckels | ... | Minister | |
| Gus Peters | ... | Caretaker | |
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Clare Peck | ... | Narrator (voice) (as Clare C. Peck) |
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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 the grandmother, and their mother, who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritance she plans to win back from her dying father, to the point of murder... Written by David Gibson <djg6@ukc.ac.uk>
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incest | uncle niece incest | girl | partial female nudity | bathtub |Taglines:
The one truth they have yet to face is the terror no one could imagine. See more »Parents Guide:
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20 November 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Flores en el ático See more »Filming Locations:
Castle Hill, Crane Estate - 280 Argilla Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA See more »Edit
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Located in Ipswich, Massachussets, the Castle Hill estate, also known as the Crane estate, served as the setting for the fictional Foxworth Hall estate. The exterior shots were filmed on location, but all the interior shots were filmed in a sound stage. The estate was also used in another 1987 film, The Witches of Eastwick (1987), as Jack Nicholson's character's home. See more »Goofs
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I read the book back when I was in college. It was trash but it was GOOD trash. It involves a happy family--a mom, a dad and four kids. The father dies and the mother rapidly runs out of money. She has no choice to ask her parents (who disapproved of the marriage) for help. Her mother agrees but tells her that her children must stay up in the attic--her father doesn't know about them and, if he did, he wouldn't help her. The kids are in the attic for THREE YEARS. And, over time, one of the brothers "discovers" his sister...and the grandmother tortures them almost daily. Those were the big selling points of the book...the incest and kids being tortured. It does have a happy ending though (sort of).
I was one of the "lucky" ones who actually saw this at a theatre back in 1987. The studio snuck it out quietly--I found out why. First, the story was changed. They wanted a PG-13 rating so there's no incest at all--not even suggested. The tortures their grandmother puts them through were softened or eliminated entirely. They aren't up there for three years. And they completely changed the ending (although it WAS great to see the mother get it at the end). All the changes drained the story of any impact it might have had. Acting didn't help--Louise Fletcher is LOUSY as the evil grandmother; Victoria Tennant was even worse as the mother; Kristy Swanson as the oldest daughter overplayed her role a LOT. Only Jeb Stuart Adams as her brother gave a halfway good performance. It was no great piece of acting but pretty OK.
To be fair to the movie, a faithful adaptation of the book would probably be way too grim for a movie (and get an NC-17 rating) but diluting it completely AND adding lousy acting isn't the way to go! Boring, stupid, illogical...a total waste. This deserves a 0. I'm really surprised that some people LIKE this movie!