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Release Date: April 7, 2000
Director: Sofia Coopla
Cast: Josh (Trip Fontaine), James Woods (Mr. Lisbon), Kathleen Turner (Mrs. Lisbon), Kirsten Dunst (Lux), Scott Glen (Father Moody) etc....

The Plot: The lives of five boys from an affluent is changed for ever with their obsession of five baeutiful sisters. The story is told with the boys recollection of their childhood. The story turns dark with the death of the youngest sister and the effect it has on the rest of the family.

Reviews:

Dark comedies are a strange breed of film, they can be either extremely silly or extremely philosophical, but not anything in between. The latter, if done right, have a mystical air about them which can be absolutely mesmerizing. Sofia Coppola has managed to pull it off.
Exactly who Giovanni Ribisi is supposed to be isn't exactly known, but he begins reminiscing about a tragedy which happened many years before. There were five sisters(Leslie Hayman, Kirsten Dunst, Chelsea Swain, Hanna R. Hall and A.J. Cook), daughters of a certain Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon(James Woods and Kathleen Turner), a math teacher and his religious fanatic wife. Every heterosexual male in the high school had the hots for them, but mom wouldn't let them socialize.
Then Cecilia(Hall), the youngest of the sisters throws herself out the window during a party her parents throw for her after she survived an earlier attempt. The sisters go into seclusion for a while and in doing so they become more mysterious to the boys they go to school with, in particular, Trip Fontaine(Josh Hartnett), the school hunk.
He finds Lux(Dunst), the eldest unattainable and thus desirable, and so concocts a plan to get her. It works. Romance blossoms, and he recruits the narrator's younger incarnation(Jonathan Tucker) and his buddies to take the other three to prom. Sex ensues, and Mrs. Lisbon exacts revenge on her daughters.

The best thing about Ms. Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides book is the atmosphere. It has a dreamy quality about it that both excites and mystifies. The acting is wonderful. Turner is really good at playing psychopaths, Woods is fine as always as the clueless, if understanding father, and the ladies who play the sisters give an unreality to the proceedings that is just what is needed. Danny DeVito and Scott Glenn have cute cameos as unhelpful professionals.
This is definitely worth the trip to the theater.