Foxfire starring Hedy Burress,
Angelina Jolie, Jenny Lewis, Jenny
Shimizu, Sarah Rosenberg
My Favorite Movie
Angelina Jolies strong-willed performance in Foxfire as Legs, the
charismatic outsider based on the rebellious character from Joyce Carol
Oatess novel, is a very good reason to see this 1996 drama. The film
updates the story from the 1950s to the 90s, 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. Bold and larger-than-life, Legs
quickly gathers a group of adolescent girls around her, each of whom has
been sexually abused and is dealing in her own way wi th the emotional
consequences. As expected, the girls plot out their revenge, but even more
interesting is the intensity of their bond and rituals, the way they hang out
in an abandoned house, their expressions of devotion. So tight and self -
protective does this clique become that onlookers--fellow students,
parents--become resentful. The final act loses faith somewhat with the
mystique of this story, as a few hoary ideas (kidnapping, firearms) breach
the films originality. But whats good is good indeed, an d Jolies
performance remains a harbinger of great things to come. --Tom Keogh
ANGELINE JOLIE WAS W ONDERFULL IN THEIS MOVIE AS LEGS
lEGS IS A OUTSIDER, A NEWCOMER W HO THE LOCAL GIT=RLS, ALL
WHO OF W HICH AVE BEEN RAPED AND/OR ABUSED ARE DRAW N
TO. THEY FORM THERE OW N CLUB AND HANG OUT IN AN OLD
SHACK. IT ENDS UP IN KIDNAPPING AND GUNS TOW ARDS ONE
GIRLS FATHER. JM
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