Nov 20,1987
Hollywood Movies | Drama | Thriller | Horror | Mystery
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
| nudity | - A teenage boy and a teenage girl (brother and sister) have a conversation about incest. - A teenage boy takes off his clothes. We see him from the waist up, then later see him in his underwear. - A teenage girl undresses. We see her in her bra from the shoulders up. - Two teenage siblings sleep in the same bed together. |
| violence | Moderate violence. A woman is receives a whipping of 17 lashes across her back (off screen). The woman is forced to reveal her whipping to her children which is quite graphic. A child's grandmother picks up by her hair for screaming. A child bites his grandmother on the leg, causing the grandmother to slap him across the face. A teenage girl is pushed and slapped unconscious by her grandmother, who then cuts off her hair. A woman and her teenage daughter slap each other across the face. A teenage boy knock his grandmother unconscious with a chunk of wood. A teenage girl pushes her mother out of a window causing the woman to get hanged by the vale from her wedding dress. |
| profanity | Mild. Uses of the words 'damn' and 'hell'. |
| alcohol | None |
| frightening | PG-13-Thematic Elements and Disturbing Content Including Child Abuse A young boy passes away due to an illness caused by negligence and poisoning. |
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