My Sweet Audrina (2016)
“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
In the last year, Lifetime has basically become the home for women of a certain age nostalgic for the books of their youth. For most women, the novels of V.C. Andrews were our first experience with... forbidden literature. "Flowers in the Attic" was like a puberty membership card, and when one of your friends handed it to you, you felt like you were finally a grownup. For some, "Flowers" may have been the only book you read, because it was the "It" book. Or maybe, like me, you read every single Andrews book you could get your hands on with ravenous glee.
You'd think that movies based off of V.C. Andrews books would have been a guaranteed goldmine, but after the 1987 version of Flowers in the Attic paled in comparison to the book in every way possible, a film future for the Dollanganger/Foxworth family, or any of Andrews' creations, seemed unlikely. But then Lifetime swooped in in 2015 with film versions of the entire Dollanganger series (which we'll cover later), and more recently, the standalone My Sweet Audrina.
So did it hold up? It's Lifetime, baby! Where the hell else would you go for the kind of campy and incredibad film drama necessary to bring a V.C. Andrews novel to life?
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Nope. Nothing awkward here. |
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Papa, there's a whole world of women out there. Leave me be. |
The cast of My Sweet Audrina is also about as perfect as it could be. While Audrina is portrayed at different ages by different actresses, "adult" Audrina is played by India Eisley, a woman who can drink beer legally but looks like she should be carded trying to see an R-rated movie. Her baby-face is just unsettling enough to put you on edge for the last half of the film, making you want to slap the hand of anyone who touches her. James Tupper (of any nighttime soap you've ever watched) is also perfectly cast as "Papa" Adare. He's sexy, but at the same time, more than a little creepy, which is exactly the right tone needed to play just about any man in an Andrews story.

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Fuck you, Vera. Fuck you. |
Revenge Honey Rating: 4 Audrina's out of 5
My Sweet Audrina is available on the Lifetime App, iTunes, and... OnDemand maybe?
I don't know. I don't have cable.
I don't know. I don't have cable.
What was YOUR favorite V.C. Andrews book?
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