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3	In 2014, {{Creator/Lifetime}} did a MadeForTVMovie adaptation of [[Literature/FlowersInTheAttic the book]].
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5	Starring
6	* Creator/KiernanShipka as Cathy
7	* Creator/MasonDye as Chris
8	* Creator/AvaTelek as Carrie
9	* Creator/MaxwellKovach as Cory
10	* Creator/HeatherGraham as Corrine
11	* Creator/EllenBurstyn as Olivia
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14	!!Tropes associated with the movie include:
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16	* AdaptationalConsent: In the book, the sex between Chris and Cathy is rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now all these years later, the story is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what viewers are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. It's also very likely that having the heroine maintain a romantic relationship with her rapist, while a common trope when the book was written, [[ValuesDissonance would not be so readily accepted by a modern audience.]] So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
17	* AdaptationalKarma: This version has Cathy and Chris getting revenge on Grandmother by locking her up in the attic's stairwell (she's claustrophobic), then repeating the words she has said to them: "God sees everything, and he will punish you for what you've done to us."
18	* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The movie changes this so Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear (which even then was very modest and covered most of her body, basically only showing what a tank top would). An EnforcedTrope, as Kiernan Shipka was 13 during the filming.
19	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
20	* CastingGag: Creator/EllenBurstyn taking over as Grandmother from Creator/LouiseFletcher in the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic1987 1987 version]], since Fletcher had previously gotten the role of [[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched]] after Burstyn turned it down.
21	* DiedOnTheirBirthday: At the beginning of the story, Christopher, Sr. is killed in a car crash while the rest of the family is setting up a surprise birthday party for him.
22	* PeriodPiece: Unlike the 1987 film, this is set in TheFifties like the novel.

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