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Release Date
• USA: May 12, 2000
• UK: 19 May 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 19, 2000
• R2: 4 Dec 2000
Budget $6,000,000
Official Website:
The Virgin Suicides Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong thematic elements involving teens.
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA
Studio American Zoetrope
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Other Titles
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• The Lisbon Sisters (2000)
• Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Coming Of Age, Teenage, Love, School / Campus, Infidelity, Black Comedy, Deception, Betrayal, Tragedy, Period Piece
Tagline: Love Sex Passion Fear Obsession
Plot: 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
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Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Lick the Star |
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| Written by |
Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation, The Godfather: Part III, The Outsiders |
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| Cast |
James Woods
Contact, Casino, Once Upon a Time in America |
 | Kathleen Turner
Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, The Jewel of the Nile |
 | Kirsten Dunst
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 |
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 | Scott Glenn
The Silence of the Lambs, Apocalypse Now, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Danny DeVito
L.A. Confidential, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Fish |
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