The Virgin Suicides (film)


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.

The story takes place in the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the mid1970s, as a group of neighborhood boys, now grown men acknowledging in voiceover narrated by Giovanni Ribisi who speaks for the group as a whole reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, agesto 17. Unattainable due to their Catholic and 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.The film opens in the summer with the suicide attempt of the youngest sister, Cecilia, as she slits her wrist in a bath. After her parents allow her to throw a chaperoned basement party intended to make her feel better, Cecilia excuses herself and jumps out of her second story bedroom window, dying when she is impaled on an iron fence below. In the wake of her act, the Lisbon parents watch over their four remaining daughters even more closely. This further isolates the family from the community and heightens air of mystery about the girls to the neighborhood boys in particular. ........

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