Daddy never approved of her marriage and wrote her out of his will and her unforgiving mother fletcher insists that the children be kept locked in the attic to prevent him ever discovering.
Flowers in the attic movie 1987 plot.
There are secrets chris jeb stuart adams and cathy kristy swanson never knew about their parents.
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.
Cathy dollanganger lives a charmed life with her father chris her mother corrine her elder brother christopher and her younger twin siblings cory and carrie.
After the sudden death of their father teenagers chris and cathy and 5 year old twins cory and carrie are forced to travel with their mother corrine to live with her wealthy parents who disowned her years ago.
When chris dies in a traffic accident corrine insists on moving the family from pennsylvania to virginia to live with her splendidly wealthy parents.
Andrews flowers in the attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity.
After their father dies the teenage siblings along with their younger brother and sister are sent to live with their cruel grandmother olivia louise fletcher.