The Virgin Suicides

1999
R
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

174K

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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
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

174K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,005

316

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

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations

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)

Soundtracks
On the Horizon
Written and Performed by Sloan
Courtesy of Murderecords
Published by Two Minutes of Music Limited

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Engaging and heartfelt - a MUST see!

"The Virgin Suicides" is a touching, artistic film which transforms you through various stages of grief to realize what you already knew all along - Suicide is pointless. The film focuses on the lives of five teenage sisters from the perspective of the teenage boys who adore them. It's warm, funny, and totally engagingnot to mention a soundtrack to die for! There are incredible moments of cinematography - images that burn like when mother Kathleen Turner insists that her daughter, Kirsten Dunst burn her rock albums, Kiss, Aerosmith.the overwhelming stench and smoke billows out the doorway behind her when Kathleen throws the rest in the trashand without a flinch she re-enters the billowing doorway. Only a few rocky transitions between scenes catch you by surprise and pull you out of Sophia's incredible imagination and back to your theatre seat. With wonderful performances by Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, James Woods and the rest and powerful directing by Sophia Coppolayou're left wondering as any friend or parent would - "why?" "Didn't they know we loved them?"