Flowers in the Attic (1987)

Leonard Mann: Bart Winslow

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Quotes 

• 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!

• 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] 

• [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!