The Virgin Suicides (1999)

The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American drama written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A. J. Cook.

Based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides, the film tells of the events surrounding the mysterious and brief lives of five teenage sisters in a middle class suburb of Detroit during the 1970s. After the youngest sister makes an initial attempt at suicide, the doomed girls are put under close scrutiny by their parents, eventually being put into near-confinement, which leads to increasingly depressive and isolated behaviour that contributes to the family's fatal melancholy.

Synopsis

The story takes place in the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the mid 1970's, as four neighborhood boys reflect on their neighbors, the five Lisbon sisters. Strictly unattainable due to their overprotective, authoritarian parents, math teacher Ronald (James Woods) and his homemaker wife (Kathleen Turner), the girls — Therese (Leslie Hayman), Mary (A. J. Cook), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Lux (Kirsten Dunst), and Cecilia (Hanna R. Hall) — are the enigma that fill the boys' conversations and dreams.

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