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If There Be Thorns is a american film of genre Drama directed by Nancy Savoca released in USA on 5 april 2015 with Heather Graham
If There Be Thorns (2015)
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Add to a movie listIf There Be Thorns is a 2015 television film based on the 1980s best-seller novel of the same name. It premiered on April 5, 2015 and was produced by
Lifetime.
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Six years after Petals on the Wind, Cathy and Chris are happily married and live in California with Cathy's sons, Jory and Bart. Bart feels lonely and outshone by his brother and parents. One day, a woman dressed in all black moves into the mansion next door and invites Bart and Jory over for tea and cookies, and explains that she is rich but has no family except for her butler, John Amos. She takes a picture of them for keepsake, and asks them to visit her more. Jory declines but Bart agrees after she promises to give him anything he likes. Bart is curious why he has no other relatives and knows that Chris is his stepfather, but Jory says that their maternal grandmother is in a mental hospital and Chris' relatives are dead. Corrine lavishes gifts and treats on Bart, including a pet python, and tells him she is his grandmother, Corrine. John Amos gives Bart a journal belonged to his great-grandfather, Malcolm, and makes him promise to never reveal it to his family. Bart reads how Malcolm referred to beautiful women as sinful and degrading, which envelopes his mind.Actors
Heather Graham
(Corrine Winslow)
Jason Lewis
(Christopher Sheffield)
Rachael Carpani
(Cathy Sheffield)
Mason Cook
(Bart Sheffield)
Jedidiah Goodacre
(Jory Marquet)
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