Josh Hartnett had the worst hair in every movie, and it didn't even matter. It still doesn't.
Love this, love the book, love Kirsten Dunst.
Favorite (Not Necessarily Best) Four From Every Year Since Birth
The Virgin Suicides
Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life.
Rating
4.5 (1)
Release Date
4/21/2000Runtime
97 minsGenres
Overview
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
How It Feels
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A languorous, haunting portrait of adolescent desire and suburban constraint that observes its subjects through a dreamlike haze. The film wraps inexorable tragedy in aesthetic beauty, creating a deeply unsettling meditation on youth, desire, and the pressures that crush it.
Mood
MelancholicWistfulClaustrophobicUnsettling
Themes
Coming of ageFamilyIdentityMortalityGender
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyDesaturatedFormalist
Structure
Ensemble
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm
Kirsten Dunst
Lux Lisbon
Josh Hartnett
Trip Fontaine
James Woods
Mr. Lisbon
Kathleen Turner
Mrs. Lisbon
Michael Paré
Adult Trip Fontaine
A. J. Cook
Mary Lisbon
Hanna Hall
Cecilia Lisbon
Leslie Hayman
Therese Lisbon
Chelse Swain
Bonnie Lisbon
Giovanni Ribisi
Narrator (voice)
Anthony DeSimone
Chase Buell
Lee Kagan
David Barker
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