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The Lifetime Network, your go to source for cheap, trashy celebrity biopics is flexing their creative muscles with an announced adaptation of the VC Andrews novel, Flowers In The Attic. Deadline Hollywood has the story. V.C. Andrews’ controversial bestselling book, Flowers in the Attic, is getting a TV movie adaptation at Lifetime. The cable network has greenlighted the film, which will star Heather Graham andEllen Burstyn. Wow Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn? Bet they never dreamed they’ed be on the same network as Dance Moms, huh? Mortgage payments make dreams come true! For those of you who aren’t familiar Flowers In The Attic, here’s a quick rundown of the plot. Flowers In The Attic weaves the gothic tale of four young siblings, two boys and two girls, who, after the tragic death of their father, are torn from an idyllic life and subjected to cruel emotional and physical abuse resulting from a dark, long-hidden family secret. Hmm, sounds kind of classy for Lifetime. What? There’s consensual brother-sister incest, and they’re locked in an attic? Well I stand corrected.