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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Where to start. Lets start with the kids, for one Cathy and Chris are Way.... Older in the movie then the novel, and I found that to be a big disappointment because they start out so innocent in the Attic that after three and a half years, their innocence has been shattered to pieces. Plus Kristy Swanson and Jeb Stuart Adams were not at all how I pictured Cathy and Chris, don't know why that were chosen. And the grandmother! She is so evil, and I just do not like it one bit. In the novel it practically stated that she is evil, but there is a sense of humanity in her. Which the movie completely leaves out and just makes her so you wish her dead every minute. Changing the poison doughnuts to poison cookies was just ridiculous! Them changing the time in the Attic to one year instead of three I found unnecessary. The ending was the second biggest hit to the gut, because instead of just leaving they accidentally kill there mother, leaving absolutely no possibility for a sequel! They just screwed themselves over with that decision. And the last thing is they leave out the incest. I'm not stating that I enjoyed the incest cause I did not. I am stating that it was a huge part of the novel, which is what shocked and captured millions of people and when they take that out... The film is hollow. No passion. I find it to destroy the whole film all together. I am very disappointed by this adaption and give this a 1 out of 10, I do not recommend this movie.

Although this adaptation of Virginia Andrew's dark series has not done justice to her writing, the film is still dark, eerie and captures the main essence of the book.Although it lagged action at times and drags, the story is unique and captivating. The acting of the Grandmother is freaky and it is definitely a film I would watch again.I am interested in the 2014 remake, I am sure with the quality of films made these days we are in for a treat.However, this is the classic adaptation and I think the children were conveyed well and their stories were told in this film.Even if you are not a V.A fan, still a good film to watch.

Truly, when I was very young, way back in the eighties…my older sister introduced me to this book, Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. Following my first read, I read it another 3½ times along with the three follow-up books and one prequel book. I loved every minute of that series and remember the events and journey of Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie to this day.When the movie first came out in 1987, my sister – another huge influence on my childhood – just had to take me to the movie. Not that I was complaining; 1987 was just when I grew and fell in love with movies (my passion for cinema would only grow tenfold from there.)Since we were both familiar with the story of the "flowers in the attic," we walked away disappointed and felt betrayed. So much had changed from novel to screen. Especially….that ending. That horrible, terrible, misplaced, no good and actually laughable climax.I believe I saw the movie just shy of a handful of times later on home video, but not for twenty years would I watch it again. 2014 announced to me a Lifetime (TV) film version of this and it sparked my interest into seeing this again after two decades away from Foxworth Hall and the Four Cs.Okay, the movie was very 80s, and had some way overacting – namely by Kristy Swanson and that ending – Oh, dear God, that misleading, incorrect and unintentionally hilarious finale – was just as awful. But, I must say: the movie still held true (for the most part) to the original idea behind the V.C. Andrews story.Yes, they changed details, events and made it, incredibly, less violent, claustrophobic and shorter than the events in the book, but the key plot points and motivations were present. And Director/Writer Jeffrey Bloom did all he could to bring a phenomenal book to about 90 minutes of footage. Still not sure how he came up with the last few minutes, though I suspect studio interference for that blunder.The story revolves around four young siblings who get locked up in a room/attic while their recently widowed mother fights for the love of her dying rich father from which she previously fell from grace. Mother's visits to her eventually neglected children become scarce as the weeks and months go by, but they have more to worry about as their hyper-religious and angry Grandmother's punishments increase.With that synopsis, I only touched on the tip of the iceberg with this tale of suspense, love, hope, horror, danger, yearning, greed, despair and future. As did this movie. Watching this should be like reading the back description of the book on the back cover. Then you should read the whole thing, and don't stop until you read all five books in the series. It's truly a great read and never lets the reader down.I digress. This movie, for any of its shortcomings, will always have a special place in my heart. From what it meant growing up, and being with my sister. No matter what they changed, I can still get that feeling, albeit summary, of the book I read nearly five times.* * * Final thoughts: The first line, up to the "…" of my review is the first line of the book, though "eighties" replaced "fifties" for accuracy in my story. To this day, from all the countless books I read, this first book I ever read's first line will stay with me to my end days. I loved it as I did the rest of the book. I don't know why I remember it so well or fondly, but I always will. Think what you will of this movie, but if you had my experience with these… Flowers in the Attic…you might actually love this movie more than what it deserves.

It seems that about 90% of Louise Fletcher's roles after "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" were retreads of Nurse Ratched, and Jeffrey Bloom's "Flowers in the Attic" is no exception. She plays the psychotic grandmother of some children who move into her house with their mother after their father's death. But as time goes by, it starts looking as if the mom might not be much better.Fletcher makes her role chilling, but the presence of Victoria Tennant makes it hard to take this seriously as a thriller. You see, Tennant was married to Steve Martin for some years and co-starred with him in "All of Me" and "LA Story". Even as her character grew more and more hostile, I kept expecting Steve Martin to enter the scene as the wild and crazy guy. The other main cast member is Kristy Swanson, whose best known movie role is the title character in the completely brainless "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".And then there's the comparison to the book. Prior to watching the movie I had never even heard of V.C. Andrews, let alone known that she'd written a series of books about unpleasant families. I did read that they changed a number of things from the book. In the end, this mostly ends up looking like one of those movies only memorable for the bizarre cast that they assembled (others include "Hurry Sundown" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told").