"Virgin Suicides" Summary
(Premiere - December 1998)
Set in the uncomfortably upper-class suburb of 1970s
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the film chronicles the descent of the Lisbon
family from tenuous stability to morbid chaos. Kirsten Dunst plays
Lux, the second youngest of five classically beautiful teenage daughters,
whose life is consumed by emotional turmoil after the violent suicide of
her younger sister (newcomer Hanna Hall).
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