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7.1A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Cast
- Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon
- Josh Hartnett as Trip Fontaine
- James Woods as Mr. Lisbon
- Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Lisbon
- Michael Paré as Adult Trip Fontaine
- A.J. Cook as Mary Lisbon
Themes
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- michigan
- suicide attempt
- 1970s
- coming of age
- suburb
- lust
- family
- catholic
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
181,615 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Metacritic
77/100
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 15 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sofia Coppola
- Screenplay by
- Sofia Coppola
- Based on
- The Virgin Suicides , by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Produced by
- Francis Ford Coppola Julie Costanzo Chris Hanley Dan Halsted
- Starring
- James Woods Kathleen Turner Kirsten Dunst Josh Hartnett Scott Glenn Michael Paré Danny DeVito Hayden Christensen
- Cinematography
- Edward Lachman
- Edited by
- James Lyons Melissa Kent
- Music by
- Air
- Production companies
- American Zoetrope Muse Productions Eternity Pictures
- Distributed by
- Paramount Classics
- Release dates
- May 19, 1999 ( 1999-05-19 ) ( Cannes ) April 21, 2000 ( 2000-04-21 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $9 million
- Box office
- $10.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American psychological drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola in her feature directorial debut, and co-produced by her father, Francis Ford Coppola. Based on the 1993 debut novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, it stars James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, A.J. Cook, and Josh Hartnett, with Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, Jonathan Tucker, and Danny DeVito in supporting roles. The film follows the lives of five adolescent sisters in an upper-middle-class suburb of Detroit in 1975.
Shot in 1998 in Toronto, it features an original score by the French electronic band Air. The film marked the first collaboration between Coppola and Dunst, whom Coppola later cast as the lead in several of her subsequent films.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Virgin Suicides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.