Foxfire [DVD]

Fair price

A good movie to watch

Early on, soon after the anarchistic, magnetic female drifter Legs (A. Jolie) appears, I thought I noticed quotations from earlier 1990s' films. One was Mr. Jones (dir. M. Figgis, starring R. Gere), where the Gere character walks atop a rooftop and is needlessly injured. But Legs--cool and concentrating--travels up, across, & down a river's bridge. No injury here. The bridge may symbolize Bonding (as between disjointed land areas or as between the two teenage women in that scene).As social obstacles in school and in homes are dealt with, Legs brings the four Townies together as a group, and forever binds them to their memories of her.You know that Legs must eventually move on in order to be true to herself. Settling down anywhere is too much of a compromise for her.The movie's direction and acting knocked me out I was unable to guess the ways that the five women would extricate themselves from the sequence dire straits. I did notice that The 4 Townies increasingly trusted spontaneity and their own instincts, rather than their conformism or abstract thinking, to start living Life. When you Live, "Trouble" can be a welcome challenge, or so, I think, Legs might write if she, kept a diary.If you haven't yet seen the 1966 Czech Daisies by Chytilova, you might like that, too.It, too, takes an unusual view of "Bonding" among young women, BUT it uses absurdism rather than Firefox's "gentle approach" to convey its themes.

good movie with Anjolena jolie

This movie isn't a direct adaptation of Joyce Carol's Oates novel which was set in the 1950s, but it does convey the spirit of the novel well. Maddy is fascinated by a strange girl who strides into her school named Legs. With her help, Maddy and her new friends take revenge upon a teacher Mr. Buttinger, for his sexual advances upon his students. Maddy becomes enamored with Legs, to the point of neglecting her boyfriend and being distracted from her art studies. All the girls bond together and congregated in an abandoned house in town. It's really a beautiful film, very 90s. The script isn't perfect, but each character has her own voice.This isn't a cliche teen movie. We don't see them seek the boy or wish to be popular. These girls just want a little more control over their own identities and lives.

I was 18 years old when the casting director announced to me and the hundred or so other teen extras, "The stars of this movie will be the big stars of tomorrow." I sat there in the classroom among my peers at Lincoln high school in Portland, Oregon, and I sort of rolled my eyes. I doubted that anyone in a low-budget movie being filmed in Portland would one day be a big star. So imagine my shock when I found this movie in a video store a few years ago and looked at the credits: "Starring: Angelina Jolie." I thought to myself, "Wow! The casting director was right!" She was a complete unknown at the time, with the biggest star at the time being Jenny Shimuzu.So, this movie is a great time capsule for me as I get nostalgic about my teen years. It's great to turn on this movie and see myself and my high school classmates wandering around in a crowd with not-yet-famous Angelina Jolie. So the nostalgia and sentimental factors enough to interest me. This is a wonderful time capsule of my youth. But on its own merits, I'm not sure this would interest other people. It is the kind of movie you would expect a major Hollywood star would have been in BEFORE they became famous. Diehard Jolie fans, and people nostalgic for their teen years (such as myself), will love this movie. I'm not sure about anyone else….

It’s a must for any 90’s connoisseur. This was from when Angelina Jolie was still in her early days as an actress, and it’s a wonderful coming-of-age film. Man, I miss those days.

This is a coming of age movie for a small band of young women expelled from high-school for attempting to deal with a perverted biology-teacher all by themselves. That gets everything moving. The scene is set in a small town on the bend in a river with a great old bridge. There is not a lot here to tie the story to a particular geographic area or period in American history. All the guys in town are upset with the girls for causing the biology-teacher, who is also the football coach, all this trouble. That along with other social issues to tangle everything up real good leads to a series of crisis scenarios. The ostracized girls hold a "bare-breast tattooing by candle-light" party in "their" abandoned house. Then, with messes all around, several people need to be rescued, one at a time, until nearly everything is resolved. Life goes on with everybody, wiser for their shared experiences, wandering off to make their own way in the world.