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'{{refimprove|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox television | show_name = Petals on the Wind | image = http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k36nBetGsGo/U6XH2pPtkdI/AAAAAAAAByE/3nA8K4M2Xv8/s1600/pe.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = Drama<br />Romance<br />Thriller | creator = | based_on = {{based on|''[[Petals on the Wind]]''|[[V. C. Andrews]]}} | writer = | screenplay = Kayla Alpert | story = | director = [[Karen Moncrieff]] | starring = {{unbulleted list|[[Heather Graham]]|[[Ellen Burstyn]]|[[Rose McIver]]|[[Wyatt Nash]]|[[Bailey Buntain]]|[[Dylan Bruce]]}} | narrated = | theme_music_composer = Mario Grigorov | country = United States | language = English | num_episodes = | producer = {{unbulleted list|Richard D. Arredondo|Kyle A. Clark|Lisa Hamilton Daly|Laurence Ducceschi|Tanya Lopez|Merideth Finn|Charles W. Fries|Rob Sharenow|Michele Weiss|Lina Wong}} | editor = Mark Stevens | cinematography = Anastas N. Michos | runtime = 85 minutes | company = {{unbulleted list|A+E Studios|Cue the Dog Productions|Fries Film Company, Inc.|Silver Screen Pictures}} | distributor = [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime Pictures]] | budget = | network = [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] | first_aired = {{Film date|2014|5|26|United States|TV=y}} | last_aired = | preceded_by = | followed_by = ''[[If There Be Thorns (film)|If There Be Thorns]]'' | website = http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/petals-on-the-wind }} '''''Petals on the Wind''''' is a 2014 [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] movie sequel to the 2014 adaptation ''[[Flowers in the Attic (2014 film)|Flowers in the Attic]]'', starring [[Heather Graham]], [[Rose McIver]], [[Wyatt Nash]], [[Bailey Buntain]] and [[Ellen Burstyn]]. It is based on [[Petals on the Wind|the novel of the same name]] by [[V. C. Andrews]], the second novel on the [[V. C. Andrews#The Dollanganger series|Dollanganger series]]. It premiered on Lifetime on May 26, 2014. The network announced on the premiere of the movie the developing of the following books of the Dollanganger series, ''[[If There Be Thorns]]'' and ''[[Seeds of Yesterday]]'', both set to air in 2015.<ref name=Cinemablend>{{cite press release |url=http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Petals-Wind-Sequels-There-Thorns-Seeds-Yesterday-Coming-Lifetime-64313.html |title=Petals on the Wind Sequels If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday Are Coming to Lifetime |publisher=Television Blend |last=West |first=Kelly |date=May 27, 2014 |accessdate=June 6, 2014}}</ref> ==Plot== Ten years after escaping from Foxworth Hall, the surviving Dollanganger children - Cathy, Chris, and Carrie - attend the funeral of their adopted father, Paul Sheffield, who provided them a good home and the means to achieve their dreams after having nowhere to go. Still traumatized by their grandmother's abuse and their mother's betrayal, which led to the death of Carrie's twin, Cory, Cathy can't understand how a mother could do such a thing to her own children. Meanwhile, their grandmother, Olivia, is invalid due to having suffered a stroke and constantly shouts out to the servants that Corrine poisoned her children, but no one believes her. Corrine has avoided all contact with her children and begins to renovate Foxworth Hall so she can take full ownership of the mansion. During the past decade, Cathy has become an aspiring ballet dancer, Chris is in medical school, and Carrie is enrolled in an elite high school, but is constantly bullied for her small size. Cathy meets Julian Marquet, a fellow dancer, and finds herself attracted to him. On their first date, he invites her to go to New York with him to try for a leading in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', which she accepts. Later that night, Cathy and Chris admit that they still have feelings for each other and give into their passion, making love. However, Cathy insists they must find others to love and live normal lives. The conversation reveals that Cathy was pregnant with Chris' child, conceived from their first sexual encounter while they were imprisoned but miscarried. Although Chris says he can never love anyone but her, Cathy leaves for New York with Julian the next day. Chris meets Sarah Reeves, the daughter of his boss at the hospital he works at, and they begin a relationship. Cathy's relationship with Julian quickly deteriorates as he shows his dark side; he physically and verbally abuses her, and threatens to kill her and Chris if she leaves him. He even drops her during try-outs and injures her leg so she doesn't get her desired role. She manages to sneak away to see Chris graduate from medical school but denies anything is wrong when he sees her black eye. She later returns to him after he tells her how sorry he is for hurting her and helps Cathy get the role of [[Romeo and Juliet|Juliet]] by putting glass in the original dancer's shoes. Carrie asks Cathy if she can stay with her and Julian to escape from the bullying, and Cathy agrees. During the play, Chris catches Julian touching Carrie, and violent confrontation occurs, which ends with Julian storming off into his car and Cathy chasing after him. As he drives erratically, Cathy reveals she is pregnant with his child, which distracts him and they get into a car accident, leaving him dead and her injured but alive. Ten months later, after the birth of her son, Jory, Cathy opens her own ballet school. Carrie meets and falls in love with a local minister named Alex, who quickly proposes to her. Carrie is unsure about being a minister's wife due to her memories of how their grandmother called them evil, and Cathy tells her to forget the past and look towards the future. Carrie finds Corrine at a charity gathering and invites her to her wedding, but Corrine denies Carrie as her daughter. The next morning, Cathy and Chris find that Carrie consumed poison-laced doughnuts and committed suicide. Enraged, Cathy vows to get revenge on their mother, even though Chris tries to talk her out of it. She hires her stepfather, Bart Winslow, as her attorney in disguise of reviving the Sheffield estate with the intent on seducing him. Bart is instantly attracted to her and they begin an affair. Pressured by his boss, Chris proposes to Sarah and she accepts. However, the day before the wedding, Chris admits to Cathy that he doesn't want to marry Sarah because he still loves her. Cathy tells him she still loves him but she wants him to move on with his life, but they end up sharing a passionate kiss, which Sarah accidentally walks in on. Horrified, she ends her engagement with Chris, who is fired from his job as rumors of the incestuous relationship spreads. With nothing left to stay for, Chris asks Cathy to come start a new life with him in California, where no one will know them, along with her son Jory. However, Cathy reveals that she is pregnant with Bart's child and intends to finish what she started. Chris asks her if she loves Bart, and she says no because she loves Chris. Chris decides to go with her to finally confront their mother once and for all and they sneak into Foxworth Hall on the day of its Christmas party. After arriving, Cathy encounters her grandmother and confronts her about her religious hypocrisy and her unjustified abuse towards her and her siblings. Undeterred by her words, Olivia tells her that while she can leave the family, she will forever be "the devil's spawn". During the party, Cathy reveals her identity as Corrine's daughter and her mother's crimes to the stunned guests. Despite Corrine's denial about knowing Cathy, Bart is suspicious and Olivia refuses to defend her. Pressured by Olivia, Corrine finally admits to everything, but insists she never intended to kill Cory and put them in the attic because her father would have rejected her and left her out of his will. Cathy then publicly reveals her pregnancy caused by Bart, leaving everyone in further shock. After confronting Corrine, Bart demands for Cathy to explain why she seduced him to get back at his wife, and she says that while she cares about him, she did it for reasons he could never understand. Corrine blames Olivia for making her put the children in the attic, and Olivia says the children are abominations and didn't deserve to be born. She gives Corrine a trunk of her old possession, and Corrine is saddened to find the skeleton remains of Cory. Chris walks in and Corrine has a mental breakdown; she mistakes Chris for his father and pleads with him to hide Cory's body and run away. She sets the bed and her mother on fire, and Bart rushes to save Olivia but both die in the fire as Cathy and Chris watch Foxworth Hall burn to the ground. Six years later, Cathy and Chris are now married and happily living in California with Jory and Bart Jr., under the surname Dollanganger. Corrine is deemed incompetent to stand trial for her crimes and is living in a mental hospital, where she constantly shouts out for her children. ==Cast== * [[Heather Graham]] as Corrine Winslow * [[Ellen Burstyn]] as Olivia * [[Rose McIver]] as Cathy Dollanganger * [[Wyatt Nash]] as Christopher "Chris" Dollanganger, Jr. * [[Bailey De Young]] as Carrie Dollanganger * [[Ellia English]] as Henny * [[Nick Searchy]] as Dr. Reeves * [[Whitney Hoy]] as Sarah Reeves * [[Dylan Bruce]] as Bart Winslow * [[Will Kemp (actor)|Will Kemp]] as Julian Marquet * [[Helen Nasilski]] as Marisha Marquet * [[George Korov]] as Ravil Isyanov * [[Stephanie Kim]] as Yolanda * [[Natasha Kalimada]] as Ballerina * [[Andrew Pirozzi]] as Danseur * [[Angela Sprinkle]] as Ballet Mother * [[Ross Philips]] as Alex * [[Skyler Vallo]] as Lacey * [[Megan Easton]] as Ashley * [[Molly Hagen]] as Miss Calhoun * [[Johnny Sneed]] as Contractor ==Reception== ===Ratings=== In its original televised airing, ''Petals on the Wind'' was watched by 3.42 million viewers, and had a rating of 1.2 in the 18-49 age demographic, down 37 percent from the 1.9 earned by ''Flowers ''. ==Sequels== On the premiere of ''Petals on the Wind'', Lifetime announced the production of the two following books on the [[V. C. Andrews#The Dollanganger series|Dollanganger series]], ''[[If There Be Thorns (film)|If There Be Thorns]]'' and ''[[Seeds of Yesterday (film)|Seeds of Yesterday]]'', both set to premiere in 2015.<ref name=Cinemablend/> ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == *{{IMDb title|3496892|Petals on the Wind}} {{V. C. Andrews}} [[Category:Lifetime (TV network) films]] [[Category:American films]] [[Category:2014 television films]] [[Category:Incest in film]]'