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Release year -
1996 Age rating - 18 Angelina’s role - Margret ‘Legs’ Sadowsky ‘Box Office’ gross - $258,263 Film length - 102 mins Film genre - Drama Recommended Audience - Female (12-30yo), Emotics/Relationships Purchasing ... - click to buy the tape/DVD Cast list -
A breakthrough film regarding female friendship and rebellion. FoxFire, based on the controversial novel by Joyce Carol Oates. A mysterious drifting stranger, Legs Sadovsky (Angelina Jolie), arrives in town to meet four suburban high school girls - Violet (Sarah Rosenberg), Goldie (Jenny Shimizu), Rita (Jenny Lewis) and Maddy Wirtz (Heather Burress) - and unites them to take revenge on their repressors. She befriends the girls and helps them to open up, to see their inner beauty by strengthening their minds and hearts. Just because they are young and female does not mean they have to take anything from anybody. The intensity of their bond and rituals, the way they “hang out” in an abandoned house, and their expressions of devotion to each other in such a tight, self-protective cliqué that their onlookers - fellow students and parents - become resentful. The girls help each other by defence from molestation by a teacher, revenge on an unloving father, and safety from being raped and beaten - by use of kidnapping and firearms. Legs is a tearaway, both psychologically and sexually, who rekindles independence in the new generation of girls, but when the local jocks decide to teach the girls a lesson, their hard-won freedom becomes a violent trip. This film updates the story from the 1950s, but for a while the air of teenage angst and confrontation is closer to the legacy of James Dean than gun-toting/body-piercing disaffection, a bold and larger-than-life charismatic outsider based on the rebellious character from the novel. The women rebel against the system and make a bold statement about contemporary female relationships and empowerment. Part of the above paraphrased from another site, and part help from kind subscriber Nikki.
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 Clockwise from centre : Legs, Violet, Goldie, Rita, Maddy Wirtz   Legs tattoos Maddy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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