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The Virgin Suicides

2000
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7.1/10

Release Date

21/04/2000

Popularity

🍅 Rotten Tomatoes
80%
🎬 Internet Movie Database
72%
Ⓜ️ Metacritic
77%

Beautiful, mysterious, unsettling, invariably fatal. Like life.

In the mid-1970s, in a residential neighborhood in Michigan, the Lisbon family appears to live in perfect harmony. The neighborhood boys can't stop staring at their five daughters, Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese, who are between thirteen and seventeen years old. However, the father, Ronald, a math teacher, and the mother, Sara, a homemaker, are very protective Catholics who keep the girls out of reach. For the boys, who watch them from a distance, the sisters become enigmas that fill their conversations and dreams. Sofia Coppola directs this adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel, with Kathleen Turner and James Woods as the parents and Kirsten Dunst as Lux.

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Facts about The Virgin Suicides

Releases, age ratings, box office, post-credit scenes and more.

Post-credits sceneNone
Spain releaseMay 5, 2000
Worldwide premiereMay 19, 1999
Runtime1 h 37 min
Original languageEnglish
Original titleThe Virgin Suicides
CountryUnited States
Production companiesAmerican Zoetrope, Muse Productions, Eternity Pictures
Budget$6.0M
Worldwide box office$10.4M
Box office in the U.S.$4.9M
Return on investmentx1.7 Recouped the investment
Based onThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Trailer views822K

More ratings

3.9/5Letterboxd73/100Trakt7.6/10Metacritic (público)3.5/4Roger Ebert

Awards for The Virgin Suicides

3total awards
15total nominations

The Virgin Suicides Cast

Hanna Hall
Hanna HallCecilia Lisbon
Leslie Hayman
Leslie HaymanTherese Lisbon
Chelse Swain
Chelse SwainBonnie Lisbon
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni RibisiNarrator (voice)
Anthony DeSimone
Anthony DeSimoneChase Buell
Lee Kagan
Lee KaganDavid Barker
Robert Schwartzman
Robert SchwartzmanPaul Baldino
FourTee
FourTeeParkie Denton
Joe Roncetti
Joe RoncettiKevin Head
Chris Hale
Chris HalePeter Sisten
Joe Dinicol
Joe DinicolDominic Palazzolo
Suki Kaiser
Suki KaiserLydia Perl
Dawn Greenhalgh
Dawn GreenhalghMrs. Scheer
Allen Stewart-Coates
Allen Stewart-CoatesMr. Scheer
Sherry Miller
Sherry MillerMrs. Buell
Jonathan Whittaker
Jonathan WhittakerMr. Buell
Michèle Duquet
Michèle DuquetMrs. Denton
Murray McRae
Murray McRaeMr. Denton
Roberta Hanley
Roberta HanleyMrs. Weiner
Paul Sybersma
Paul SybersmaJoe Larson
Susan Sybersma
Susan SybersmaMrs. Larson
Peter Snider
Peter SniderTrip's Dad
Gary Brennan
Gary BrennanDonald
Charles Boyland
Charles BoylandCurt Van Osdol
Dustin Ladd
Dustin LaddChip Willard
Kristin Fairlie
Kristin FairlieAmy Schraff
Melody Johnson
Melody JohnsonJulie
Sheyla Molho
Sheyla MolhoDanielle
Ashley Ainsworth
Ashley AinsworthSheila Davis
Courtney Hawkrigg
Courtney HawkriggGrace
François Klanfer
François KlanferDoctor
Mackenzie Lawrenz
Mackenzie LawrenzJim Czeslawski
Tim Hall
Tim HallKurt Siles
Amos Crawley
Amos CrawleyJohn
Andrew Gillies
Andrew GilliesPrincipal Woodhouse
Mairlyn Smith
Mairlyn SmithMrs. Woodhouse
Sally Cahill
Sally CahillMrs. Hedlie
Tracey Ferencz
Tracey FerenczNurse
Scot Denton
Scot DentonMr. O'Conner
Catherine Swing
Catherine SwingMrs. O'Conner
Michael Michaelessi
Michael MichaelessiParks Department Foreman
Sarah Minhas
Sarah MinhasWanda Brown
Megan Kennedy
Megan KennedyCheerleader
Sandi Stahlbrand
Sandi StahlbrandMeredith Thompson
Neil Girvan
Neil GirvanDrunk Man in Pool
Jaya Karsemeyer
Jaya KarsemeyerGloria
Leah Straatsma
Leah StraatsmaRannie
Mark Polley
Mark PolleyCemetery Worker #1
Kirk Gonnsen
Kirk GonnsenCemetery Worker #2
Marianne Moroney
Marianne MoroneyTeacher
Anne Wessels
Anne WesselsWoman in Chiffon
Derek Boyes
Derek BoyesFootball "Grieving Teacher" (uncredited)
John Buchan
John BuchanJohn (Lydia's Boss) (uncredited)
Thomas Mars
Thomas MarsProm Night Guest (uncredited)

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Cast of The Virgin Suicides by the numbers

28average cast age in years
3years of age gap between the leads
42%women in the cast
26%women in the crew

The youngest in the main cast: Hanna Hall, age 15 at release. The oldest: James Woods, at 53.

Cast ages at release

Cast heights

Cast nationalities

United States 7Canada 2Germany 1

Crew

  • AddressSofia Coppola
  • WritingSofia Coppola
  • Original novelJeffrey Eugenides
  • MusicNicolas Godin, Jean-Benoît Dunckel
  • PhotographyEdward Lachman
  • EditingMelissa Kent, James Lyons
  • Production designJasna Stefanovic
  • Costume designNancy Steiner
  • CastingLinda Phillips-Palo, John Buchan, Robert McGee
  • ProductionFrancis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley

Trivia about The Virgin Suicides

It was shot in the summer of 1998 in Toronto, standing in for a Detroit suburb, with a reported budget of $6 million. Filming lasted about a month.
Coppola held numerous auditions for the role of Lux, but made an instinctive choice in Kirsten Dunst, who was sixteen years old when she was cast.
Jeffrey Eugenides, author of the novel, visited the set for three days. He supported the film, although he offered some criticism in an interview with Dazed.
Coppola wrote the screenplay in 1998, when the project already had a green light at another studio, and Nick Gomez had written an earlier version that Muse Productions did not accept.

Sources: Wikipedia (English)

What it's about The Virgin Suicides

suicidebased on novel or bookmichigansuicide attempt1970scoming of agesuburblustfamilycatholicoverprotective parentteen suicidefemininitymale gazeanxiouscautionarysistersdisheartening

Main theme: suicide, virginity, adolescence, 1970s

What The Virgin Suicides is called in other countries

It was released in 38 countries, each in its own language.

  • SpainLas vírgenes suicidas
  • FranceVirgin Suicides
  • GermanyThe Virgin Suicides - Verlorene Jugend Unvergessen
  • ItalyIl Giardino delle Vergini Suicide
  • MexicoVírgenes suicidas
  • BrazilAs Virgens Suicídas
  • PortugalAs Virgens Suicidas
  • Japanヴァージン・スーサイズ
  • South Korea처녀 자살 소동
  • China处女之死
  • RussiaДевственницы-самоубийцы
  • ArmeniaԿույսի Ինքնասպանությունը
See the remaining 26 countries
  • AzerbaijanBakirə intiharları
  • BulgariaОбречени да умрат
  • CanadaCri ultime
  • CroatiaSamoubojstvo nevinih
  • CzechiaSmrt panen
  • EstoniaSüütud enesetapud
  • FinlandVirgin Suicides - Kauniina kuolleet
  • Georgiaთვითმკვლელი ქალწულები
  • GreeceAftoheires parthenoi
  • Hong Kong死亡日記
  • HungaryÖngyilkos szüzek
  • Iranخودکشی باکره‌ها
  • Israelחמש ילדות יפות
  • LatviaJaunavu pašnāvības
  • LithuaniaJaunosios savižudės
  • PolandPrzekleństwa niewinności
  • RomaniaSinuciderea fecioarelor
  • Saudi Arabiaانتحار العذراوات
  • SerbiaСмрт недужних
  • SloveniaDeviski samomori
  • SwedenVirgin Suicides
  • Taiwan死亡日記
  • Thailandเป็นวัยรุ่นยากกว่าที่คิด
  • TurkeyMasumiyetin İntiharı
  • UkraineНезаймані самогубці
  • VietnamTrinh Nữ Tự Sát

Where it was filmed The Virgin Suicides

FilmingWhere the story takes place

Filming locations

Where the Story Takes Place

Source: Wikidata. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Quotes by The Virgin Suicides

  • Do you like to wrestle?
  • [voiceover, reading from her diary] The trees, like lungs, filling with air. My sister - the mean one - pulling my hair.
  • We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
  • She was the still point of the turning world, man.
  • What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality.
  • Trip Fontaine: You're a stone fox.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)

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Soundtrack from The Virgin Suicides

Original music by Nicolas Godin y Jean-Benoît Dunckel

The Virgin Suicides (Original Motion Picture Score)
SoundtrackThe Virgin Suicides (Original Motion Picture Score)Air · 2000 · 13 songs

Songs

  1. 1
    Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
    3:32
  2. 2
    Clouds Up
    1:30
  3. 3
    Bathroom Girl
    2:25
  4. 4
    Cemetary Party
    2:36
  5. 5
    Dark Messages
    2:28
  6. 6
    The Word Hurricane
    2:33
  7. 7
    Dirty Trip
    6:12
  8. 8
    Highschool Lover
    2:42
  9. 9
    Afternoon Sister
    2:24
  10. 10
    Ghost Song
    2:16

Other editions and albums

30-second previews on Deezer and Apple Music.