Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Leonard Mann: Bart Winslow
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Quotes
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Cathy : [coming up behind their mother at the wedding] Mother!
[Corrine turns around]
Cathy : Do you like my dress? I thought it was appropriate for the occasion.
Mother : Who are you? How did you get in here?
Cathy : Have you forgotten us already?
Carrie Dollanganger : Mama?
Bart Winslow : Who are you children?
Cathy : We're the children of the bride!
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Cathy : [Entering the wedding ceremony] Mother! Do you like my dress? I thought it was appropriate for the occasion.
Mother : [Pretending not to know her own children] Who are you? How did you get here?
Cathy : Have you forgotten us already?
Carrie Dollanganger : Mama?
Bart Winslow : Who are you children?
Carrie Dollanganger : We're the children of the bride!
[the people in the audience gasp]
Mother : [Still acting] Nonsense! You know I don't have any children. Get them out of here. I'll not have my wedding day ruined by a cruel, evil prank!
Cathy : You're the one who's cruel and evil, Mother! You kept us locked up in that attic and you said you'd come for us after your Father died! YOU NEVER CAME!
Chris : You couldn't let anybody find out about us 'cause if you did, you'd be disinherited.
Mother : [Refusing to let the truth out] It's not true! No! What proof do they have?
Chris : [Holding up a dead rat] It died. We've been eating the same cookies that Corey ate.
Mother : Who's Corey?
Chris : He was your Son and my little brother, and you killed him.
Cathy : Just like you tried to kill us. Look at us, Mother! How could you do this to us?
[She takes out a poisoned cookie]
Cathy : Here, Mother! Out Wedding present to you!
[She begins advancing towards her Mother]
Mother : Stop it!
Cathy : Go on! Eat it!
[They make their way on to the balcony]
Cathy : EAT THE COOKIE!
[as they make their way over to the balcony wall, Cathy forces her mother over the balcony, with her Mother hanging by her veil, choking to death]
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[original deleted ending]
[everyone at the wedding turns and sees Cathy, Chris and Carrie at the doorway]
Witness : Can we help you in some way?
Cathy : [calmly] We're the children of the bride--Corinne's children.
Mother : [arrives at the altar] Get them out of here! Find out where they come from and send them back!
[storms in]
Mother : I won't have my wedding day ruined by a cruel prank!
[Corinne's father grabs her by the arm and glares at her]
Witness : They say they're your children, Corinne.
Mother : I don't have any children!
[Bart arrives seeing this]
Mother : [quietly to her father] Father, you're embarrassing me, and you're hurting my arm!
Cathy : You had four children, mother. Have you forgotten already? One of them died last week and you poisoned him.
Mother : LIAR! Don't listen to her!
Bart Winslow : What proof do you have of what you're saying?
[the three children slowly approach their mother and grandfather as everyone goes silent, Chris takes out a paper bag and tosses a dead mouse out of it to his mother, Cathy then tosses the pieces of poisoned cookies to her as well before tossing the empty bag at her]
Chris : It died--just like our brother did--from eating those. We've eaten them, too, for all the times we were locked upstairs, in the attic.
[the grandfather shows pity to the children before giving his daughter a look of accusation]
Mother : It's not true! He's lying! I've never seen these children before in my life!
[Bart watches on beginning to believe this]
Mother : [to her father] Why won't you believe me!
[the grandfather hurts her arm more as he forces her down to her knees]
Mother : [cries] Oh, Papa, please! Haven't I been a good girl? All I ever did was what you wanted! I couldn't keep them--you wouldn't let me! You didn't give me a choice! Aren't I entitled to a life, Papa?
Cathy : [shouts] MOTHER!
[Corinne looks at Cathy]
Chris : [sadly] We loved you, mom... and you murdered us.
Cathy : [furiously] For this!
[everyone goes silent still, the grandfather and Bart glare at Corinne believing everything, the three children leave the room]
Mother : [faintly] THAT'S NOT TRUE! SHE'S LYING! WHY WON'T YOU BELIEVE ME!