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Director:
Writers:
Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)
Sofia Coppola (written by)
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Release Date:
12 May 2000 (USA) more
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Love Sex Passion Fear Obsession more
Plot:
A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 11 nominations more
User Comments:
Depressing, beautiful & thoughtful more (476 total)

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Also Known As:
Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides (USA) (complete title)
The Lisbon Sisters (USA) (working title)
As Virgens Suicidas (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Las vírgenes suicidas (Argentina) (video title) (Spain) [es]
Aftoheires parthenoi (Greece) [el]
Cri ultime (Canada: French title) [fr]
Das Geheimnis ihres Todes (Germany) (TV title) [de]
Il giardino delle vergini suicide (Italy) [it]
Las virgenes suicidas (Mexico) [es]
Przeklenstwa niewinnosci (Poland) (TV title) [pl]
Samoubistvo devica (Serbia) [sr]
The Virgin Suicides (Denmark) [da]
The Virgin Suicides (Austria) [de]
The Virgin Suicides - Verlorene Jugend (Germany) [de]
Virgin Suicides (France) [fr]
Virgin suicides - kauniina kuolleet (Finland) [fi]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong thematic elements involving teens.
Runtime:
97 min | Germany:90 min (TV version)
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1.85 : 1 more
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When the boys and girls are calling each other to play songs on the record player, they don't use the standard '555-' phone numbers used in television and film. more
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Factual errors: In the scenes in Mr. Lisbon's classroom there is a banner above the chalkboard that displays an incorrect value of pi. more
Quotes:
Narrator: So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls... but only that we had loved them... and that they hadn't heard us calling... still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms... where they went to be alone for all time... and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. more
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Referenced in On the Set of 'CQ' (2002) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Ce Matin La more

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54 out of 99 people found the following comment useful.
Depressing, beautiful & thoughtful, 14 November 2004
10/10
Author: kystilla from Tallinn, Estonia

"Virgin Suicides" is a movie by Sofia Coppola that talks about the Lisbon family. A group of boys, who adored them, come together after 20 years and try to solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters.

Parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) think that the world is too evil and cruel for their five beautiful daughters, Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Mary (A. J. Cook), Cecilia (Hanna R. Hall), Therese (Leslie Hayman) and Bonnie (Chelse Swain). After the youngest of the girls, Cecilia, commits suicide on the first and only party of their life, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon change the rules to be more strict. When Lux decides to brake the rules, they are taken out of school and their lives become full of misery and pain.

To me, "Virgin Suicides" was one of the best movies I have seen in my short life. It made me think a lot about those girls and feel sorry for them. They were so beautiful and just in desire to live, but they were miserable under the strict commands of their parents. They knew about the boys who adored them and after the imprisoning, turned to them for help. They were all trying to find a way out of the misery and sadness in their own way.

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