It took them 17 years to learn the rules. And one week to break them all.
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and spare.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Zoro DPieceon TMDB · Apr 20187/10
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' controversial novel, _Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang_ Annette Haywood Carter has adapted the book into a film about female empowerment and rebellion. With Angelina Jolie, Hedy Burress, Jenny Lewis, Jenny Shimizu, and Sarah Rosenberg as its stars, the movie is heavily female driven. Set in the 1990s in Portland, Oregon and centers on a teenage girl named Maddy Wirtz (Burress) as she recalls her senior year. She then meets a mysterious girl (Jolie) and upon learning of the sexual abuse that Violet (Rosenberg) and Rita put up with (Lewis) from Mr. Buttinger (John Diehl), she along with the other girls decide to rise up and take revenge on him. Maddy then learns that the girl's name is Legs and then informs her that their is an abandoned house up the river where she can stay. Then while at school she and the other girls learn that they've been reported for assaulting a teacher. Suspended from school and unable to get her art portfolio Maddy and the girls retreat to the abandoned house. Legs then insists they break into the school and retrieve the portfolio. At first their plan goes smoothly until Goldie (Shimizu) finds a rather
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Cast
- Hedy BurressMaddy Wirtz
- Angelina JolieLegs Sadovsky
- Jenny LewisRita Faldes
- Jenny ShimizuGoldie Goldman
- Sarah RosenbergViolet Kahn
- Peter FacinelliEthan Bixby
- Dash MihokDana Taylor
- Michelle BrookhurstCindy
- Elden HensonBobby
- Cathy MoriartyMartha Wirtz
Crew
- Annette Haywood-CarterDirector
- Elizabeth WhiteScreenplay
- Newton Thomas SigelDirector of Photography
- Michel ColombierOriginal Music Composer
- Louise InnesEditor
- Jeffrey LurieProducer
- John P. MarshProducer
- John Bard ManulisProducer
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