2015 · tv-movie · thriller · drama
If There Be Thorns
Directed by Nancy Savoca1h 40m2015
Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and befriends the younger boy, Bart, he begins a strange transformation and displays accusatory behavior towards Cathy and Christopher. When Christopher discovers their mysterious neighbor is, in fact, his mother Corrine Dollanganger, all of the family's long-hidden secrets are revealed in a tragic climax.
Our read: If There Be Thorns (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive tv-movie · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured tv-movie / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- bleak
- cold
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