The Virgin Suicides // Summer of ’99 Series
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Welcome to the SUMMER OF ’99, before smartphones, social media, and streaming. Pre-doom scroll, bed rot, and AI ubiquity. 1999 wasn’t just another year—it was THE year. The one that redefined cinema. It was a launching pad for today’s biggest filmmakers, a breakout year for indie film, and a cultural turning point that echoes today. Join Tomorrow Theater as they celebrate Sofia Coppola’s debut film, The Virgin Suicides.
ON SCREEN: The Virgin Suicides
1999. Directed by Sofia Coppola. Runtime: 1hr 37min. Rated R.
In an ordinary suburban house on a lovely tree-lined street in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. This is a story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.