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The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American psychological romantic drama film [2] written and directed by Sofia Coppola in her feature directorial debut, and co-produced by her father, Francis Ford Coppola.
Mar 14, 2024 · The Virgin Suicides is one of Sofia Coppola's most profound movies, but why did the Lisbon sisters kill themselves at the end of the movie?
The Virgin Suicides: Directed by Sofia Coppola. With James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett. 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.
The film follows the chain of events initiated by one of the Lisbon sisters' suicide attempt, and its effects on their family, their suburban town and most importantly, the young men who loved the Lisbons from afar and whose words provide the narrative for the film.
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...
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In an ordinary suburban house in the middle of 1970s Midwestern America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters. Their doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who, to this day, continue to obsess over them.
An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s highly acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at ...
Apr 21, 2000 · A 13 year-old girl from a Catholic family in a Detroit suburb commits suicide during the late 70s and its effects are shown over the course of the next year in the lives of her four sisters (e.g. Kirsten Dunst), her parents (James Woods & Kathleen Turner) and the boys of the community.
Apr 21, 2000 · After the suicide death of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbon family descend into a deep melancholy and eventually become isolated socially and physically by their parents (Woods, Turner) within their small-town Michigan house.
Plot summary. As an ambulance arrives for the body of Mary Lisbon, the last Lisbon sister to die, a group of anonymous adolescent neighborhood boys recalls the events leading up to her death. The Lisbons are a Catholic family living in the suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s.