Tuesday, July 23, 2013

VERY CREEPY:  Lifetime has greenlit a made-for-tv Flowers in the Attic movie starring Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn.

11 comments:

  1. Joseph Finn5:01 PM

    Oh. Wow.

    "Mother May I Sleep With My Brother Danger In The Attic?

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  2. Is her brother by chance named Carlos Danger?

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  3. Joseph Finn5:25 PM

    Oh WOW, I wasn't even thinking of that.

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  4. I know no politics blah blah blah, but THAT's what you find "very creepy" today?

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  5. Adam B.6:55 PM

    @Matt, @Russ Hanser: put a sock in it. Please. :)

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  6. The Pathetic Earthling7:20 PM

    No "it's funny" exception? This is exactly the purpose of the Rule.

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  7. The Pathetic Earthling7:24 PM

    Dear God. I knew about this book only because the title's famous. I never knew a thing about the story and, ick, that can't be unlearned. How awful. 40 million copies of this thing were sold?

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  8. Joseph Finn7:42 PM

    Just read the Wiki summary, eh? I've read the icky novel and still I was squigged out when I reread it to refresh my memory.

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  9. Adam B.8:17 PM

    I think there's a timeliness factor which pertains here which I think didn't affect the birther joke. The more live a controversy is, the less it belongs here. Maybe my judgment was wrong there. I've been wrong before.

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  10. bellawilfer2:25 PM

    I loved this book as a tween, icky incest and all, and I cannot wait for the movie. As I said on FB, viewing party at my house, you're all invited.

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  11. Marsha11:45 PM

    TPE, you cannot underestimate how widely read this book was for women of a certain age. I would venture to say that every single girl in my elementary school had read FITA before the end of 6th grade. It was forbidden fruit - my mother didn't want me reading it, and I read it anyway. The prose is deliciously purple, the characters and plot indelible, and the entire experience is so harmlessly scandalous as to make pre-teens feel like they are almost grownups. (The sequels get worse and worse, and I read every one of them anyway.)


    I never did see the entirety of the previous film with Kristy Swanson - the clips I've seen are enough to know it's heinous. But I will certainly be watching this one - with Ellen Burstyn, who never met a piece of scenery she wouldn't chew, this should be a camp-fest for the ages.

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