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The Virgin Suicides

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792166825
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792166825
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2000
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 4198
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1999

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent american suburb in the 70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Kirsten Dunst Hayden Christensen Run time: 97 minutes Rating: R Director: Sofia Coppola

Amazon.com:
Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured, and in adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Coppola demonstrates the sensitivity and emotional depth that this material demands. Surely the pain of youth and public criticism found its way into her directorial voice; in the story of four sisters who self-destruct under the steady erosion of their youthful ideals, one can clearly sense Coppola's intimate connection to the inner lives of her characters.

Played in a delicate minor key, the film is heartbreaking, mysterious, and soulfully funny, set in a Michigan suburb of the mid-1970s but timeless and universal to anyone who's been a teenager. The four surviving Lisbon sisters lost a sibling to suicide, and as its title suggests, the film will chart their mutual course to oblivion under the vigilance of repressive parents (Kathleen Turner and James Woods, perfectly cast). But The Virgin Suicides is more concerned with life in that precious interlude of adolescence, when the Lisbon girls are worshipped by the neighborhood boys, their notion of perfection epitomized by Lux (Kirsten Dunst) and her storybook love for high-school stud Trip (Josh Hartnett). Unfolding at the cusp of innocence and sexual awakening, and recalled as a memory, The Virgin Suicides is, ultimately, about the preservation of the Lisbon sisters by their own deaths--suspended in time, polished to perfection, and forever untainted by adulthood. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - good movie!
movie is very very close to the book....good job with keeping true to the book....i dislike when directors ... Read More

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Rating: - Sofia's launch to a movie that seems to grow on you
What I loved about the Virgins is the simplicity of complexity that revolves itself around the absurd. Then ... Read More

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Rating: - Haunting
This is one of my top 5 movies. It's not a feel-good movie, but rather leaves you feeling melancholy and haunted. ... Read More

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Rating: - Very Melancholy Feeling. . .
I can't believe this didn't get 5 stars from everyone - maybe it's because of the subject matter. It's an excellent ... Read More

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Rating: - THIS MOVIE REQUIRES ONE TO HAVE A DEEP MIND! THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT!
A LOT OF PEOPLE TEND TO FIND IT BORING AND POINTLESS. I PERSONALLY THINK THIS MOVIE IS AN AQUIRED TASTE WHICH I HAPPEN ... Read More

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