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 addition to songs by Heart and Todd Rundgren, the film features an evocative score by the French duo Air.

A 1970s family must come to terms with the suicide of their youngest daughter. The four remaining sisters are thrown into a cloud of depression that breeds an unhealthy obsession with death.

Theatrical release: APRIL 21, 2000 (NY/LA/SF)
MAY 5, 2000 (WIDE)

Ed Halter and Godfrey Cheshire of the New York Press and Stephen Garrett of Time Out New York voted THE VIRGIN SUICIDES one of the top ten movies of 2000.

The Chicago Film Critics Association nominated Jean-Benoit Ducket and Nicholas Godin, aka AIR, for Best Original Score.

Excerpt: "You're a stone fox."--Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett) to Lux Lisbon (Kirsten Dunst)

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Surround - French
Additional Release Material:
Music Video: Air - PLAYGROUND LOVE
Featurette: MAKING OF VIRGIN SUICIDES
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus:
1.
2. Full-Motion Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Photo Galleries

James Woods: American Actor
Kathleen Turner: American Actress
Kirsten Dunst: American actor, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE/BRING IT ON
Josh Hartnett: Actor
Hanna Hall: American Actress, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)
A.J. Cook: 
Chelse Swain: Actress
Danny DeVito: American actor/director, HOFFA (1992)
Scott Glenn: Actor, JOURNEY TO THE END OF NIGHT, W.
Jonathan Tucker: Actor/"Two If By Sea"
Leslie Hayman: Actress
Anthony DeSimone: Actor
Michelle Duquet: Actress
Michael Paré: 

Sofia Coppola: American Actress/Screenwriter/Director

Dan Halsted: 
Chris Hanley: Producer
Francis Ford Coppola: American Director, THE GODFATHER SAGA
Julie Costanzo: Producer

Fred Roos: Producer
Gary Marcus: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Sofia Coppola: American Actress/Screenwriter/Director

 Air: French Pop Band

Melissa Kent: Editor
James Lyons: Actor/Editor

"...The movie's best moments have an inspired feeling of playfulness and freedom matched by Ms. Dunst's smart, beguiling performance as Lux Lisbon..."
"...[The film is] disarmingly wispy....[The virgins] are blessed with great luminosity..."
"...This sublimely confident and poetic debut has the power to endure..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
"...Coppola does a lovely job of staging the romance..."
"...There are nice moments throughout, and Coppola has done a deft job evoking the spirit of the film's period and suburban setting..."
"...Sofia Coppola shows an impressive maturity and an assured skill....The result is a highly affecting film unafraid to exact an emotional toll..."
"...THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is Sofia Coppola's first film....She has the courage to play it in a minor key....She is content with the air of mystery and loss that hangs in the air like bitter poignancy..."
"...The director captures the novel's intrinsic nostalgia for the loss of adolescence..."