| | | A film by Sofia Coppola
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
The Virgin Suicides, a story told by Tim Weiner (Jonathan Tucker, Sleepers), revolves around the five innocent Lisbon girls: Therese (Leslie Hayman), Mary (A.J. Cook, Teen Sorcery), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Cecilia (Hanna Hall, Forrest Gump) and Lux (Kirsten Dunst, Bring It On). Gorgeous, extremely desirable and yet completely off limits due to their strict upbringing, the Lisbon sisters lead a peaceful and secluded life until they are awakened one day by the prospect of going to the high school prom. Accompanied by the town's biggest jock, Trip Fontaine (Josh Harnett, Halloween H20), Lux and her sisters embark on an evening in paradise. But, when Lux and Trip get a little too close for comfort, the fates of the Lisbon girls are changed forever.
"Mesmerizing. Unlike anything you've ever seen." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Powerfully seductive." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Based on the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES tells the dreamlike tale of the Lisbons, a family living in a sheltered 1970s suburbia. When Cecilia (Hannah Hall), the youngest of the five teenage Lisbon daughters, inexplicably commits suicide, the rest of the family--Mr. Lisbon (James Woods), an awkward high school math teacher; Mrs. Lisbon (Kathleen Turner), a stern, humorless housewife; and the four remaining sisters: Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Mary (A.J. Cook), and Therese (Leslie Hayman)--recedes into a morbid cloud of repression and denial. As the girls are forced to retreat from everyday life by their conservative mother, they become the subject of fascination for a group of neighborhood boys, who narrate the story and hope to rescue the girls from their listless confinement.The first feature by director-screenwriter Sofia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's daughter), THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is a mesmerizingly atmospheric film that perfectly captures both the moody tone of the book and the light-saturated feel of the 1970s. Dunst gives a standout performance as the promiscuous Lux, who becomes the sole obsession of high school ladies' man Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett). The movie also includes cameos by Danny DeVito and Scott Glenn. In addition to songs by Heart and Todd Rundgren, the film features an evocative score by the French duo Air.
Plot Summary
A 1970s family must come to terms with the suicide of their youngest daughter. The four remaining sisters are thrown into a cloud of depression that breeds an unhealthy obsession with death.
| Features | Subtitles: English | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Surround | | "The Making Of The Virgin Suicides" Featurette | | "Playground Love" Air Music Video | | Photo Gallery | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | 2 Theatrical Trailers |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 8/23/2005 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 338174 | | UPC: 00097363381747 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "You're a stone fox."----Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett) to Lux Lisbon (Kirsten Dunst) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...The movie's best moments have an inspired feeling of playfulness and freedom matched by Ms. Dunst's smart, beguiling performance as Lux Lisbon..." 05/26/2000 p.E18Premiere
"...[The film is] disarmingly wispy....[The virgins] are blessed with great luminosity..." 05/??/2000 p.22 Total Film
"...This sublimely confident and poetic debut has the power to endure..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 06/01/2000 p.81 Film Comment
"...The director captures the novel's intrinsic nostalgia for the loss of adolescence..." 03/01/2000 p.73-5 Entertainment Weekly
"...Coppola does a lovely job of staging the romance..." 05/19/2000 p.49 Box Office
"...There are nice moments throughout, and Coppola has done a deft job evoking the spirit of the film's period and suburban setting..." 09/01/1999 p.143 Los Angeles Times
"...Sofia Coppola shows an impressive maturity and an assured skill....The result is a highly affecting film unafraid to exact an emotional toll..." 04/21/2000 p.F6 Chicago Sun-Times
"...THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is Sofia Coppola's first film....She has the courage to play it in a minor key....She is content with the air of mystery and loss that hangs in the air like bitter poignancy..." 05/05/2000 p.35 |
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