The Virgin Suicides Details

The Virgin Suicides

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.

Starring	Kathleen Turner, James Woods, Kirsten Dunst, Danny De Vito, Leslie Hayman, Hanna R. Hall, Chelse Swain, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Michael Pare, A.J. Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Michelle Duquet, Anthony DeSimone
Director	Sofia Coppola
Studio	PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: None
Released	DVD: 20 Nov 2000 Production year: 1999
Format	DVD