Release Date: May 26, 2014
Rating: NR
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Petals on the Wind picks up 10 years after the traumatic and sometimes giggle inducing elements of Flowers in the Attic. We get to see Cathy, Chris, and Carrie at a funeral. Though you might think that their heinous grandmother or whore of a mother died, it's actually some random dude named Paul. He was a pretty big deal in the books but means nothing here. He apparently adopted them after they ran away from Foxworth Hall. Now he's dead, but he luckily left the kids everything.
Cathy dreams of being a big deal ballerina, while Chris wants to be a doctor. While in class one day, Cathy meets the ultra hunky Julian. Not only does he have abs that make me drool, but he's also the son of her teacher and a fairly famous dancer in New York. After giving her some tips, wrapping her feet, and taking her out for moonshine (seriously), he decides that she should run away with him and go to New York.
Though she originally thinks this is cray-cray, she comes home and finds Chris waiting up for her. He keeps pushing her to admit that she was on a date before pretty much breaking down in tears and admitting that he's in love with her. Creepy on so, so, so many levels. She admits that she too is cray-cray for him and they have sex. Cut to the next morning and Carrie listening in on them from the hallway. Cathy then decides to take off with Julian.
This leaves those behind out of the loop. Chris eventually starts dating Sarah, the daughter of the doctor in charge of his residency. Carrie has problems of her own. The other girls at school keep making fun of her because she carries around a doll, which was the last gift her mom gave her. They even hide in in a storage closet and put a noose around its neck. They also tease the very clearly average size girl for being so short and small compared to them.
Cathy finds that New York is far from what she expected. Julian has a vicious streak that causes him to act out and be pretty jealous. The same day that she moves in, he goes down on her and demands that she admit that "it" and her belong to him. On another day, he gets so pissed off when he thinks that she's flirting with another guy that he deliberately drops her and she injures her knee.
She sticks with him up until he refuses to let her go back to Virginia for her brother's graduation from med school. They fight, and he slams her face into the wall. No worries though. Cathy still makes it back to Virginia to learn that her brother moved on and has a new girlfriend. Chris mans up after seeing her black eye, but she still goes back to Julian. In the hopes of making her happy, Julian puts broken glass in the lead ballerina's toe shoes. When she falls out of the next dance, Cathy gets her spot.
Carrie then runs away to New York and asks Cathy if she can move in with them. Cut to several months later and Cathy's big debut on stage. Chris shows up and while backstage, he sees Julian with his hand up Carrie's skirt. This causes a huge fight, and when Julian runs off, Cathy jumps in his car. Right after telling him that she's pregnant, another car blind sides them.
We then jump to about a year later. Cathy now has her own dance school, and Carrie pretty much does nothing except mope around and sing in choir. A guy who clearly looks like a priest starts making eyes at her, and he proposes a few months later. Carrie admits that she really does feel wicked inside and that she wouldn't make a good wife for him. She also admits that she and Julian were fooling around.
Meanwhile, Corrine is her usually evil self. She's still married to that dude, Bart, from the first movie. Her mom had a severe stroke that left her bedridden and unable to leave the house. Corrine sees her a few times just to randomly talk about her mom ruined her life and how Corrine is so much prettier and more popular than her. She also decides to completely renovate Foxworth Hall and remake it in her own honor.
Carrie goes to see her mom and give her an invitation to her wedding. I guess she got over that whole "I'm not good enough" thing. Corrine pretends she doesn't know who she is and even points out that she must have got her confused with someone else as she "doesn't have any kids."
Cathy finds a bunch of unopened letters that Carrie sent to her mom and her mom sent back returned. She also discovers that Carrie made doughnuts and got out the poison. She and Chris rush upstairs and finds that she ate the poisoned doughnuts and killed herself. Cathy decides that she will do anything to bring down their mother. Chris snaps because he's somehow still a mommy's boy and tells her that if she leaves, she's on her own.
Cathy whores it up in tall boots and a short skirt. She goes to visit Bart, claiming that she needs help with her estate. She also does some flirting and milks the fact that she's a single mother and that his wife couldn't have kids. The two naturally start an affair that ends with her pregnant. Sarah then shows up on her doorstep with the news that she and Chris are engage and that she wants Cathy to be her maid of honor.
When she heads home for the wedding, she naturally can't keep her hands off her brother. They start making out, and Sarah catches them. Chris is so angry that he decides to get even with his mother and help his sister out. They go back to Foxworth Hall, and Cathy comes face to face with their grandmother. The old women once again tells them that they're evil, wicked, the spawns of satan, blah, blah, blah. Cathy finally snaps and points out who killed Corrie and who did what to whom.
Cut to the day of the Foxworth Hall unveiling. Corrine goes to see her mother, who says some suspicious things and keeps bringing up the past. She goes home to Bart, starts giving him a hand job, and then turn evil. While still giving him a hand job, she makes him look at her in the mirror as she tells him she knows of his affair and that things will change from that moment on. They then go to the house and have a huge party in front of their friends.
Cathy shows up at the top of the stairs to tell everyone about what her mother did all those years ago. Corrine tries to deny it, but Bart realizes it's the truth. Cathy then reveals that she's pregnant with his child, and Bart throws everyone from the party. He gets Cathy alone, and she finally realizes that by getting back at her mother, she hurt an innocent person and that deep down, she really does care about him.
Corrine goes to see her mother, who casually says, "so, I guess the chickens have come home to roost?". She then shows Corrine a trunk that she had workers get from the attic and says she has a special present inside. Corrine digs through the trunk, finding the paper flowers her kids made, some clothes, and at the very bottom, Corrie's body. I guess she couldn't be bothered burying him or anything.
Chris bursts in, and Corrine sees her chance to escape. She creepily enough suggests that they run away all three and raise Cathy's baby together, she then creepily enough tries to ram her tongue down her son's throat. Chris snaps and pushes her to the side, which causes her to snap.
She grabs a candle and lights the room on fire before going crazy. Chris grabs her and carries her from the house. Cathy and Bart wander in and find the house on fire. Bart, hearing the grandmother screaming upstairs, runs up to save her. Chris comes in and drags Cathy out as she screams for Bart.
We then jump ahead a few more years. Cathy and her brother now live in California with her two kids by two different men, both of whom think Chris is their father. A bunch of random women tell them how perfect they are and they just smile. We then get to see Corrine in the mental institution crying and screaming about her kids and dropping hints that maybe she wasn't always quite so evil.
Lesson learned: Sleeping with your sibling may work out for you in the long run, but I don't recommend it.
