Foxes (1980)
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Tagline:
« They found that growing up in Hollywood was a tough thing to do! »
Actors:
Jeanie
Annie
Madge
Deirdre
Brad
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
(5’463 votes)
(5’463 votes)
Quotes:
[closing narration]
« Jeanie: Back in the heavy stoned days, when we used to stay up and talk a lot, Annie and me, we were talking about dying, how it feels and all. I said I'd never get buried. I couldn't stand them shoveling dirt in my face. Like, I know I'd be dead, but I still might have this strong compulsion to breathe, okay? But Annie, she said she wanted to be buried right in the ground under a pear tree. Really. Not in a box or anything. She said she wanted the roots going right through her, and each year, we'd come along, take a pear, and go "Hey, Annie's tasting good this year, huh?"
»
« Madge: [after Jeanie was talking to a pimp on Hollywood Boulevard, looking for Annie] God, Jeanie, I don't know how you could even talk to that guy. I mean like, he looks like a… He could hypnotize you like a cobra or something you know, and the next thing you're out on the Boulevard and you're dressed like the Pointer Sisters.
»
« Mary: [to Jeanie, after Annie has been placed into a mental hospital] Maybe Annie is sick. Did you ever think of that? Maybe the whole bunch of you are sick. You booze. You dope. You sleep with whoever. I don't even know who you are. You look like kids, but you don't act like them. You're short 40-year-olds and you're tough ones.
»
Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:106 minutes
Plots:
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Four best friends, with four different personalities, have issues of their own. Deidre is fascinated by her sexuality and has many boyfriend problems. Madge is unhappily overweight and has overprotective parents. Annie boozes and does drugs, and runs away from her abusive father, a policeman. Jeanie has to take care of them and is fighting with her divorced mother. The only way to loosen up, and forget all the bad things happening in their lives, is to party and have fun. Jeanie is ready to grow up and wants to stop acting like a child. Annie is the worst of them all and Jeanie is worried about her the most. She risks her neck more than once trying to keep Annie clean and free from trouble. However, Annie’s unstable behavior and flare ups keeps everyone on edge.
Sixteen year olds Jeanie, Annie, Madge and Deirdre are friends and high school classmates living in middle class suburban Los Angeles, they individually and collectively who are trying to navigate through the transition into adulthood and the want to stake their independence under the varying levels of adult guidance – mostly without – they currently have. They collectively see that next step of independence as living together without any adult supervision. Living with her divorced mother Mary who has returned to college in trying to stake her own independence from Jeanie’s concert promoter father Bryan, Jeanie is the mother hen of the group whose house is the sanctuary for the four. She is evaluating the status of her three year relationship to boyfriend Scott as she considers college in her accelerated studies. Annie, who has to contend with the iron fist of her abusive police officer father, has become the wild child, often running away and running to casual sex, drugs and staying out all night, with Brad, a former classmate who dropped out in the need to work, steadfastly by her side even when she’s with other males. Madge is the one still closest to childhood in being the least experienced, sexual or otherwise. She has yet to tell anyone the extent of her relationship to Jay, he well out of his teens, the two purportedly in love. And Deirdre is the flirt who is stringing along a few boys.
