The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Matt Roush says...

Sigourney Weaver stars and is executive producer of a visually lush but tonally grim adaptation of Holly Ringland’s novel set largely on the aptly named Thornfield, an Australian flower farm that serves as a refuge for abused or orphaned women. Weaver is June Hart, the flinty proprietor, but the first three (of seven) chapters, premiering this week, belong to young Alyla Browne as her 9-year-old granddaughter Alice, rendered mute by abuse and tragedy and disoriented when, after a mysterious fire kills her parents, she awakens amid the nurturing women of Thornfield. Alice is understandably curious about the grandmother she never knew and other aspects of a family past that June seems determined to keep a secret. The fallout continues next week, when Fear the Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey assumes the title role as a young adult who flees Thornfield’s mysteries to seek a fresh start in the outside world.

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