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Lifetime’s ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Review: The Incest Is There, The Strange Magic Is Not

The Adolescent Psyche

Lifetime doesn't make the mistake of leaving the brother-sister incest out of its television adaptation of Flowers in the Attic. What's missing here is context.

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James Dittiger

When V.C. Andrews's mega-selling 1979 young-adult novel Flowers in the Attic was adapted into a campy 1987 horror movie starring Kristy "The Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Swanson and Louise "Nurse

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