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Coppola Is A Modern Day Capra!
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Nov 27, 2004
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In my opinion, I thought this was a deeply disturbing, haunting portrail of a family's life gone wrong. It's sad, yet moving and makes you want to reach out to these girls and help. The acting is amazingly convincing and Coppola is as amazing as her father. But beware, always watch a comedy immediately after this film!
1 hr. 37 min. On the surface the Lisbons appear to be a healthy, successful 1970s family living in a middle-class Michigan suburb. Mr. Libson is a math teacher, his wife is a rigid religious mother of five attractive teenage daughters who catch the eyes of the neighborhood boys. However, when 13-year-old Cecilia commits suicide, the family spirals downward into a creepy state of isolation and the remaining girls are quarantined from social interaction (particularly from the opposite sex) by their zealously protective mother. But the strategy backfires, their seclusion makes the girls even more intriguing to the obsessed boys who will go to absurd lengths for a taste of the forbidden fruit.
Release Date: April 21, 2000 LA/NY/SF; January 20, 2000 Sundance '00.
MPAA Rating: R for strong thematic elements involving teens.
Distributor: Paramount Classics |
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