![]() ![]() It may have been the most gasped about plotline back in the '80s, but don't expect "50 Shades of Greg and Marcia." He ain't sexy, he's my brother. The rape element is gone, and we only see the siblings kiss and lie next to each other in bed. But this is still a TV movie, and Lifetime's no HBO. Star Mason Dye, who plays Christopher in this version, said to Entertainment Weekly, "Will there be incest? Yes." It was left out of the first film, so everyone wanted to know how Lifetime would handle it here. It's the plot that made the book infamous, the pages to which everyone's worn paperback fell open. In the book, hunky brother Christopher rapes his sister Cathy, who's in love with him but does resist. The most uncomfortable plotline of them all. ![]() ![]() Now Lifetime has made a new TV movie out of the book, and sticks slightly more faithfully to Andrews' juicy prose. Andrews' 1979 bestseller, cutting out the brother-sister incest storyline that had so many 1980s teens horrified. For 1980s kids, girls especially, "Flowers in the Attic" was one of those guilty pleasure paperbacks that you couldn't resist, but didn't really want your mother to know you were reading.Ī 1987 film sliced and diced V.C. The "Flowers" may have been in the attic, but the book was hidden under the covers, or in lockers, or propped up behind a chemistry textbook. ![]()
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