The Virgin Suicides

1999
15
1h 37m

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7.2/10

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Coming-of-Age Teen Drama Tragedy Drama Romance

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

Director
- Sofia Coppola
Writers
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Sofia Coppola
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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

178K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

941

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Director
- Sofia Coppola
Writers
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Sofia Coppola
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations total

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Trivia
After she had written the script, Sofia Coppola was heartbroken to discover that another company was already producing an adaptation of the book themselves. However, they were not happy with their script, so she showed them hers and they ended up using it instead.

Goofs
The father refers to his model airplane as a B model North American P-51 Mustang in British service, however, the model aircraft is actually a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.

Quotes
Narrator: [Narration] In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the *outrageousness* of a human being thinking only of herself.

Crazy credits
When the title appears, it first appears like a schoolgirl's idle writing, replete with hearts replacing the "dots" over the "i's". The title then repeats over and over, in different modes of print and script (the handwriting equivalent of different typefaces and fonts), filling the screen. It is accompanied by various decorative doodling (an eye with tears, a caterpillar, clouds, unicorns, a flower, the sun).

Alternate versions
Released in two versions, the general, worldwide theatrical release and an edited cut for television viewing in Germany. Runtimes are, respectively, "1h 37m (97 min)" (theatrical release) and "1h 30m (90 min) (TV) (Germany)".

Connections
Featured in Air: Playground Love (2000)

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five girls

A beautiful adaptation of a great novel.

It is the premises for this admirable work of sofia Coppola to reflect, in precise manner, the universe proposed by Jeffrey Eugenides. The faithfull portrait of characters, atmosphere, life in neighborhood is one of basic virtues.

The second good job remains the acting and the surprising way to define, from Josh Hartnett to Kirsten Dunst the complexity of age, the seduction and vulnerability and life like dream, preserving the ambiguity defining the story.

Not the last virtue is the intensity of emotion of reader of novel, rediscovering details and slices , accurate adaptated.

A film about loneliness, life of small comunity , a couple loving, in his way , cold and precise, their daughters and a form of vulnerability , not surprising for teens, but defining the perspective about life in cold manner.