Line #34 Film/SeedsOfYesterday


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3	In 2015, {{Creator/Lifetime}} did a MadeForTVMovie adaptation of [[Literature/SeedsOfYesterday the book]].
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5	Starring
6	* Rachael Carpani as Cathy
7	* Jason Lewis as Chris
8	* [[Music/BigTimeRush James Maslow]] as Bart
9	* [[Creator/SamanthaHanratty Sammi Hanratty]] as Cindy
10	* Anthony Konechny as Jory
11	* Creator/LeahGibson as Melodie
12	* Nikohl Boosheri as Toni
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14	''Seeds of Yesterday'', more than any other of the books, doesn't really have a central plot with a climax. Instead has a bunch of subplots that meander around. The movie does an AdaptationDistillation by removing Joel and lessening the focus on Jory, and an AdaptationExpansion by making the Bart/Cindy relationship more central and {{Relationship Upgrad\|e}}ing it from BelligerentSexualTension to an OfficialCouple. The movie thus has a much more traditional plot structure than the book, leading many fans praise it as a PragmaticAdaptation.
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17	!!Tropes associated with the movie include:
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19	* TheNineties: Bart is proud to have a DVD player and dial-up internet in his house. Bart gives Cindy a Discman for Christmas.
20	* AbductionIsLove: There's no question that the sex is all consensual, but the prelude to it's kinda sketchy. [[spoiler:Bart basically stalks Cindy when she sneaks out to a local bar. He confronts her in the woods, and she baits him in their usually banter-y way. He proceeds to forcefully pick her up to take her home, while she's screaming at him to put her down. He throws her on the ground and begins kissing her, and she responds in kind. The next scene after the commercial break is of her sitting on his bed in her underwear, eager for Round Two.]]
21	* AdaptationalBadass: Jory--even in a wheelchair--can physically take down his brother.
22	* AdaptationDyeJob: Melodie is a brunette in the movie, while Jory is blond. It was the other way around in the book. Just like in the last movie, making Bart the only dark-haired one in the family serves to visually underline his BlackSheep status.
23	* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: The most interesting follow-on effect of the RelationshipUpgrade between Bart and Cindy is how it reframes the father-son relationship between Chris and Bart. Bart is acutely aware of the LikeFatherLikeSon potential, and dead-set on {{Def\|iedTrope}}ying it.
24	* AdaptedOut: Joel, of all people--who was a major antagonist in the novel, essentially what Malcolm strives to be, and who had considerable poisonous influence over Bart--is completely absent from the movie.
25	* AnswerCut: Cathy assures Bart that the right woman for him is out there somewhere. The next shot is of Cindy arriving at the house.
26	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: There's a sweet scene between the brothers where Bart visits Jory in the hospital.
27	* BelligerentSexualTension: Bart and Cindy
28	* CrazyJealousGuy: Bart towards Cindy--his reaction upon catching her and her boyfriend together is far more that of a lover than brother. Later, he follows her when she sneaks out to a local bar and can be seen glaring at the guy she's cavorting with.
29	-->'''Bart:''' That trust-fund maggot didn't deserve you.\
30	'''Cindy:''' Oh, well, now you just sound jealous.\
31	'''Bart:''' Don't get it twisted like the rest of our family.
32	* DistractedByTheSexy: Bart botches a tennis play upon noticing Cindy in her minidress. He nastily calls her out on it even though it was completely unintentional on her part.
33	* EatingTheEyeCandy: Bart, when Cindy wears the red dress to his birthday.
34	* EpiphanyTherapy: Like in the book, [[spoiler:Bart realizes only after Chris dies that he loved and valued him]]. He forgives him, and realizes that his family really does love them and that he has to stop pushing them away before it's too late. In the movie, the RelationshipUpgrade between Bart and Cindy also re-frames the relationship between Bart and Chris. [[spoiler:When Chris dies, Bart forgives his father. His forgives his parents' incest, and then in turn forgives ''himself'' for ''his'' incest. This propels him to follow in his father's footsteps and marry his own sister. He adopts a strain of Christianity that's more focused on love than sin.]]
35	* FalseStart: Bart and Cindy are moments away from kissing, Bart caresses her hair--then pulls it. They instantly fall back into their old patterns of antagonism.
36	-->'''Cindy:''' What the hell?!
37	* FemaleGaze: The camera lingers over Bart as he [[ModestyTowel wears a towel]], takes off that towel, and gets dressed.
38	* GenerationXerox: Bart and Cindy's incestuous relationship echoes that of their parents--there's even a moment following a confrontation with Cindy when Bart angrily tells Chris, "I am ''nothing'' like you!", indicating that he's determined to ''resist'' his attraction to his sister. Only after Chris dies does Bart embrace the path Chris took: marry your sister and be happy together.
39	* HollywoodPudgy: In universe. Bart taunts Melodie about how much weight she's gained during her pregnancy and Melodie herself laments it in another scene, but she looks fine.
40	* InterruptedSuicide: Jory drives his wheelchair into the pool to drown himself. Chris pulls him out and saves him.
41	* JerkassHasAPoint: Bart stalks Cindy when she sneaks out to a local bar and spies on her while she cavorts with one of the patrons, but he's right that she's too young to be going to such places and aside from jealousy, his actions might be out of genuine concern for her safety in such a situation.
42	* LovingBully: It appears that a huge part of why Bart is always so antagonistic towards Cindy is because he's struggling with his improper attraction to her. Right down to him throwing her out of his room after they finally have sex, no doubt because he's ashamed of what they've done.
43	* MeaningfulLook: Cathy is aware of the subtext when Cindy talks about how she has this weird need to provoke Bart. Cindy does not see her mom's face--they're both looking across the room at Bart--but the audience does.
44	-->'''Cindy:''' I don't know what it is, it's like--something about him makes me want to get [[SomethingElseAlsoRises a rise]] out of him.
45	* MenacingHandShot: A closeup of Bart's fist clenching angrily as he walks in on Cindy and her boyfriend having sex. The camera stays with it as he storms toward them and attacks the guy.
46	* MovingAwayEnding: The movie ends with Bart and Cindy and Toni and Joey leaving Foxworth Hall to embark on their respective new lives, leaving Cathy behind.
47	* NoMedicationForMe: At one point, Bart goes off his meds. Everyone else sees this as an extension of his regular behavior, but Cathy is more willing to think it's because of that.
48	* NotBloodSiblings: Adoptive siblings Bart and Cindy ''do'' fall in love and eventually marry. Cindy justifies the relationship by mentioning the trope.
49	-->'''Cindy:''' All my life you made me feel ashamed for being adopted, but now I am ''so happy'' I am. I mean, it's not like we're blood sibs like Mom and Dad. [...] It's not sin; not for us; not really.
50	[[indent:20:However, the narrative's framing of this is actually a SubvertedTrope. Bart ignores Cindy's words. That reasoning doesn't seem to land with him; he doesn't seem to think it makes a difference. Before Bart can move forward in his relationship with Cindy, he first has to make his peace with incest and accept the relationship between their parents (who ''are'' blood siblings). Only then can he get together with Cindy, knowing that it ''is'' incest and being ok with that.]]
51	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Chris to Bart. This is right after a confrontation between Bart and Cindy, so the implication is, of course, they're alike in that they both have a thing for their sisters.
52	-->'''Chris:''' I know you. And whether you want to believe it or not, we're a lot more alike than you think.\
53	'''Bart:''' No I'm not like you. Do you hear me? I am ''nothing'' like you.
54	* ThePeepingTom: There's a window that overlooks the pool, providing Bart with the perfect venue to watch Cindy while she swims and suns herself. She tauntingly waves to him when she catches him doing it. He uses the same window to spy on her when she sneaks out and takes the same "overlooker" position to watch her at a local bar.
55	* RelationshipUpgrade: In the book, Bart and Cindy have a brutally antagonistic relationship, have some sexual tension, and make peace at the end. In the movie the {{UST}} is turned slightly up, the antagonism turned slightly down, and they actually get together at the end.
56	* RetargetedLust: Bart beds Melodie shortly after Cindy catches him spying on her while she's at the pool. Later, he visits a brothel and selects a prostitute who resembles Cindy. Even creepier, he takes her from behind, possibly to enable him to continue imagining that it's Cindy he's having sex with.
57	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bart's family becomes increasingly unwilling/unable to handle his unstable behavior.
58	* SelfHarm: Bart, of the self-flagellation variety.
59	* SexySlitDress: The dress Cindy wears to Bart's party has a slit all the way up the side.
60	* SexySurfacingShot:
61	** Cindy climbs out of the pool thusly. Bart is watching; she knows, and is playing it up.
62	** The first scene we see of Jory and Toni together is Jory doing one. For Jory this has an extra dimension of her first seeing him in a context where he's strong, competent, and doesn't need any assistance or equipment--it's a bit of a flex.
63	* SheIsAllGrownUp: In the book Cindy ''does'' comment on how hot Bart and Jory are, but much more narrative focus is placed to how ''Cindy'' has gotten hot in the two years since Bart last saw her. In the movie, this is {{Gender Flip}}ped, and the focus is on Cindy looking at Bart.
64	-->'''Cindy:''' When did Bart get so effing hot? He used to be such an ugly little cretin.
65	* TantrumThrowing: Bart--having just found out about the will--throws and breaks something.
66	* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Bart tells Toni to call him by his {{first name\|Basis}} rather than Mr. Foxworth. This is framed as flirtatious.

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