The Virgin Suicides

Date Released: May 5, 2005
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Hanna R. Hall
Genre: Drama
Rating: 7.6/10

The Virgin Suicides is a film about the Lisbon family that appear to be a healthy, successful 1970s family living in a middle-class Michigan suburb. Mr. Libson is a math teacher, his wife is a very religious mother of five attractive teenage daughters who catch the eyes of the neighborhood boys. The movie opens with the youngest daughter, 13-year-old Cecilia commits suicide, the family spirals downward into a creepy state of isolation and the remaining girls are isolated from social interaction, mostly the opposite sex by their protective mother. Unfortunately, the mother's strategy backfires, when the seclusion from the outside world makes the girls even more intriguing to the obsessed boys who will go to absurd lengths until their obsession ends with the death of the other four girls. 


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