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Virgin Suicides, The
Michigan. It takes place 25 years ago, so assuming that it is based on the film's release date, that would make the year 1974.
She jumped out the window.. Cecilia jumped out her bedroom window and fell onto the fence in the yard.
What was the first item that the neighborhood boys, who loved the Lisbon girls, get a hold of? | The Virgin Suicides
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a diary. They managed to retrieve Cecilia's diary. It revealed that Mary had capped teeth, Lux was in love with the garbage man, and Cecilia's love interest, Dominic, was in love with Diana Porter.
Math. He eventually lost his job when the girls were taken out of school.
in history class. He was roaming the halls and went into Lux's history class to avoid running into the principal.
Who is NOT one of the boys who accompanies the girls to the Homecoming dance? | The Virgin Suicides
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Peter Sisten. Peter was the boy who had dinner at the Lisbon house.
her records. While burning the records, Lux reveals that Aerosmith and Kiss are her favorites.
She put her head in the oven.. Bonnie was the one who ended up hanging herself. Therese took the sleeping pills, Lux died in the garage and Mary put her head in the oven.
Giovanni Ribisi. Although it's never said the name of his character (I'm assuming he was one of the neighborhood boys based on previous narration), he is simply credited as 'Narrator.'
She impales herself on a fence. On her first suicide attempt, Cecilia, the youngest sister, slits her wrists in the bathtub. When this fails she jumps out of the window impaling herself on the garden fence.
Therese. Bonnie hangs herself, Mary puts her head in the oven and Lux dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.
2037. You can see the number just above the door after Mrs. Lisbon takes Lux's records out to the rubbish bin.
Parker Denton. Parker was chosen by Trip to take one of the girls to the dance because he had the car.
Red. He wears a dark red velvet suit. Trip is played by a very young looking Josh Hartnet.
Mary. In her diary Cecilia writes that Mary chipped her tooth on the monkeybars and had to get it capped.
An elm. There are references throughout the movie to the dying elm trees. The girls fail to save it from being cut down.
Peach Schnapps. Bonnie doesn't want to try it but Lux calls her a goody-goody. In the book on which the film is based we find out that Trip purchased the drink with a false I.D.
13. Cecilia's age was mentioned twice in the movie. The first time was when she was in the hospital after her attempted suicide. When the doctor asked her why she was there, her reply was, 'obviously doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl.' The second time was when the narrator was introducing the girls as they got out of the Lisbon family car.
A 1920's wedding dress. The book went more into depth about this clothing item. Cecilia had some attachment to this dress and never seemed to take it off until she died. After her death, her mom threw away the dress and Cecilia was buried in a stiff beige dress.
Slitting her wrists. The story began with Cecilia's attempted suicide, and ended a year later with the rest of the girls' suicides. Cecilia's nearly dead body was discovered by Paul Baldino when he snuck into the Lisbon house.
She jumped out of a window and impaled herself on a fence. Cecilia first attempted suicide by slitting her wrists, but she failed and ended up jumping out her window onto the garden fence. The other deaths were those of her sisters'.
Three times. The first time her ghost was seen was by her father in her room, but this later turned out to be Bonnie in a long nightgown. The second time Tim Weiner saw Cecilia sitting on his bed right before he fully woke up. And the last time she was seen sitting on a tree by Chase Buell on his way to school.
During the girls' party. Cecilia kept to herself during the party. She asked her mother to be excused only minutes before the party-goers heard her land on the fence.
She was a bride in Calcutta. This was the last time Cecilia made an appearance in the movie. The narrator explained that on their dream trip, 'Cecilia didn't die; she was a bride in Calcutta'.
Bracelets taped to her bandages. The book explained that none of the other girls were wearing bracelets, which meant that they probably gave Cecilia all of their bracelets. In the movie she wore about a dozen bracelets on each wrist, implying she was wearing all of the bracelets she and her sisters had.
A butterfly. After the test, Cecilia's doctor told her parents that he didn't thing Cecilia truly meant to end her life, her actions were just a cry for help.
Hanna Hall. Leslie Hayman played Therese, A.J. Cook played Mary, Chelse Swain played Bonnie, Kirsten Dunst played Lux, and Hanna Hall played Cecilia.
14. Lux Lisbon was the second youngest Lisbon daughter, but was considered the youngest after Ceclila's death. Lux was most likely 15 when she died, as a year had passed after she was introduced.
Trip Fontaine. Trip Fontaine was played by Josh Harnett in the movie. Trip was a "lady's man" and when he fell for Lux, she didn't even acknowledge him.
The garbage man. Lux lost it over Kevin Haynes, the garbage man. She'd wake up at 5 in the morning and lay about on the front porch like it wasn't completely obvious! She wrote his name in marker in all her bras and underwear and mom found them and bleached out all the Kevins. Lux has been crying on her bed all day.
She gassed herself in the family car. Lux distracted the boys when they came over to let her sisters die in peace. Lux died after the boys ran away and we later see her arm coming out of the car as the medics come and get her body.
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