from Zoetrope
Directed by
Sofia Coppola
Starring
Danny
DeVito (Dr. Horniker)
Kirsten
Dunst (Lux Lisbon)
Josh
Hartnett (Trip Fontaine)
Kathleen
Turner (Mrs. Lisbon)
James
Woods (Mr. Lisbon)
Chelse Swain (Bonnie Lisbon)
Leslie Hayman (Therese Lisbon)
A.J. Cook (Mary Lisbon)
Hanna Hall (Cecilia Lisbon)
Jonathan Tucker (Tim Weiner)
Scott Glenn (Father Moody)
Anthony DeSimone (Chase)
Michael Pare (Adult Trip)
Giovanni Ribisi (Narrator)
Written by
Sofia Coppola
Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)
Original Music by
Air
Rated: 
(for strong thematic elements involving teens.) |
 In an ordinary
suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle
of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters,
whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who
to this day continue to obsess over them. What happened to the
Lisbon sisters is a tale at once darkly funny and deeply poignant,
a story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death,
memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending
investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of
American adolescence.
The sleuth in this mystery is Tim Weiner (Jonathan Tucker),
who grew up amidst the bewitching spell of the five Lisbon girls
- Therese (Leslie Hayman), Mary (A.J. Cook), Bonnie (Chelse Swain),
Lux (Kirsten Dunst) and Cecilia (Hanna Hall) - and still seeks
the answers to their spectacular demise. The girls were everything
desired and unattainable: gorgeous, luminous and completely off
limits due to their parents' (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) strict
household rules. From afar, the boys watched the girls through
half-opened window shades, binoculars and the haze of fantasies.
Then, they witnessed something that would shake them to their
very souls: angelic Cecilia plummeting from her bedroom window.
In the wake of Cecila's shocking act, the Lisbons go into
a deep, cold storage, shutting out the world and retreating into
their own secretive inner sanctum. It seems they will never recover
until Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett) - the town's preeminent jock,
hunk and dream date - begins to pursue the impossible Lux Lisbon,
with whom he is dangerously smitten. Then Trip does the unthinkable:
he asks Lux Lisbon to the prom, allowing all the remaining Lisbons
to venture for the first time to a school dance.
For one brief evening in paradise, four boys, including Tim
and Tripp, get as close to the Lisbon sisters as anyone has ever
been. But when Lux and Tripp get a little too close, events spiral
out of control,. The Lisbon girls are locked away for good, taken
out of school, incarcerated by Mrs. Lisbon.
Lux descends into an outlaw promiscuity, which provides endless
nights of binocular bliss for Tim and his friends. But the boys
no longer want to just watch the Lisbon girls. Now they want
to save them . . . and by extension their own doomed youth and
innocence.
Based on Jeffrey Eugenides' acclaimed novel, The Virgin Suicides
is a dark, grown-up fairy tale carved out of the funny-sad fabric
of suburban teenhood. The film is written and directed by Sofia
Coppola, who makes her feature film directorial debut.
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