The virgin suicides

Author

Sofia Coppola

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Michael Pare, Danny DeVito ; narrator, Giovanni Ribisi.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong thematic elements involving teens.

Summary

In the mid-1970's, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Isolated by their overprotective parents, they move like fleeting visions against the suburban landscape, luminous and unattainable. But when school hunk Trip Fontaine convinces Lux Lisbon and her sisters to go to the prom, the boys' romantic fantasies threaten to come true--until they are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.

Notes

Title from container.

Based upon the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by director Sofia Coppola ; new interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson ; Making of "The virgin suicides," a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner and James Woods, Eugenides, and more ; Lick the star, a 1998 short film by Coppola ; music video for Air's soundtrack song, "Playground love," directed by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola ; trailers.