Seeds of Yesterday (film)
| Seeds of Yesterday | |
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| Genre | Drama Romance Thriller |
| Based on | Seeds of Yesterday by V. C. Andrews |
| Screenplay by | Darren Stein |
| Directed by | Shawn Ku |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Douglas Pipes |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
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| Executive producers | Dan Angel Jocelyn Freid Charles W. Fries Jane Startz |
| Producers | Richard D. Arredondo Harvey Kahn |
| Cinematography | James Liston |
| Editor | Lisa Jane Robison |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Lifetime |
| Release | April 12, 2015 |
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| If There Be Thorns | |
Seeds of Yesterday is a television film released on April 12, 2015 produced by Lifetime based on the 1984 novel of the same name.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]Thirteen years after If There Be Thorns, Cathy and Chris arrive at Foxworth Hall, which has been re-built by Bart, for his 25th birthday party. Bart has remained obsessed with Malcolm and has an estranged relationship with his mother and uncle/stepfather due to their incestuous relationship. He has even changed his last name to Foxworth in order to emphasize his distance from them. His anger and hatred is particularly aimed towards Chris, though still showing a deep love for his mother. Jory and his wife, Melodie, arrive to announce she is pregnant with twins. Everyone but Bart is excited about the news and Bart is jealous of his brother because he secretly lusts after Melodie.
The next day, Cindy arrives and Bart welcomes her with contempt, not even wanting to acknowledge her as his sister due to her merely being adopted. At the birthday party, Jory and Cindy perform a ballet for the guests, but Jory has an accident that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down and ends his dance career. Melodie is distraught since she is unable to live with a husband who cannot dance, nor make love to her again. Cindy suspects that Bart was responsible for the incident since he had updated his insurance policy the day before the accident. When confronted with this suspicion, Bart denies this to Cathy and Chris, but they do not fully believe him.
As months pass with Jory hospitalized and Melodie becoming more depressed, Bart takes advantage of her vulnerable state and seduces her. When Jory comes home, Corrine's will is read and Bart is enraged to learn that he will inherit the Foxworth estate only on his 35th birthday, leaving Chris as the guardian of his money until then. Cathy discovers Bart and Melodie's affair when walking in on them having sex. Bart tells Cathy that Melodie loves him and points out that Malcolm was obsessed with his own mother until she abandoned him and how much he hates seeing his own mother with Chris. Cathy then confronts Melodie and threatens to ruin her life if she does not start supporting her husband Jory. Jory however soon attempts suicide by drowning himself in the pool, but is saved by Chris. Following this, Melodie promises Jory that she will be more attentive to him, but she soon tries to continue her affair with Bart, who having had her, now rejects her. Cindy brings home a new boyfriend, Lance, to meet the family during dinner. However, Bart beats him after catching the two having sex. Despite his hatred towards her, Bart nevertheless starts to lust for Cindy.
On Christmas Day, Bart deliberately confesses his affair with Melodie to Jory, and the shock causes her to go into premature labour. She gives birth to a boy and girl named Darren and Deirdre. However, she shows no interest in them as well as Jory and abruptly abandons them. Bart follows Cindy meeting with another boyfriend at a bar and confronts her on her way home through the woods and, in the heat of the moment, has sex with her. Cindy is interested in having a relationship with Bart and admits that she has genuine feelings for him, even revealing she knows about Cathy and Chris' secret, but he rejects her, having sated his lust. Devastated, Cindy returns to school in New York.
Chris decides to look for a new house for Cathy, Jory, the twins, and himself to give Bart his own space. They hire a nanny, Toni, to take care of the twins. Bart starts pursuing her, which troubles Cathy since she was hoping Toni would end up with Jory instead. Bart soon accuses Toni of being with him merely for his money and breaks up with her. He then forces the family to attend a baptism at the Foxworth chapel for the twins and almost drowns Deirdre in the font, causing Cathy and Chris to decide to leave Foxworth Hall with Jory, Toni, and the twins to get away from sociopathic Bart. Bart has a mental breakdown and accuses Cathy of abandoning him for Chris, and blames her for ruining the family. He is about to kill her with a dagger before he is stopped by Jory. Finally seeing that it is hopeless to help him, Cathy decides to leave Bart for good. As he returns home after finding them a new house, Chris pulls over to help a stranded motorist and is struck by a passing truck, which kills him instantly.
Several hours pass before the police arrive to inform the family of Chris' accident and death. This causes Bart to realize his wrongdoings and how he has pushed people away. He realizes his love for Cindy and confesses to her when she comes home for Chris' funeral. Bart remorsefully gives a moving eulogy at Chris' funeral and is thankful to Chris for raising him when he did not need to. In the end, Cathy reveals that Jory finished his recovery, became a dance teacher, has married Toni, and they are raising the twins and expecting a child together. Bart becomes a televangelist and marries Cindy. However, Cathy chooses to remain at Foxworth Hall as she continues to mourn the loss of her beloved Chris. One day, she goes up to the attic, sits by a window and, as she envisions yellow paper flowers, there is an implication that she had died of a broken heart.
Cast
[edit]- Rachael Carpani as Catherine Dollanganger[4]
- James Maslow as Bart Foxworth
- Jason Lewis as Christopher Dollanganger
- Sammi Hanratty as Cindy Sheffield
- Anthony Konechny as Jory Marquet
- Leah Gibson as Melodie Marquet
- Nikohl Boosheri as Toni
- Andrew Herr as Lance
References
[edit]- ^ "Lifetime Sets Premiere Date for Flowers in the Attic Sequel". 1 April 2014. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ "'Seeds of Yesterday' Movie Spoilers: 8 Major Differences Between the 1984 V.C. Andrews Book and 2015 Lifetime Movie". International Business Times. 12 April 2015. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "TV Review: Lifetime's 'If There be Thorns,' 'Seeds of Yesterday'". 3 April 2015. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "Lifetime casts leads for third 'Flowers in the Attic' movie, 'If There Be Thorns'". Zap2it. 4 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.