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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 19230
Released: June 6, 2000 |
| Our Price: $8.25 |
| Used Price: $2.38 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
GIRL GANG LEADER ANGELINA JOLIE INSPIRES HER TEENAGE POSSE TO TAKE REVENGE ON EVER MAN WHO'S EVER ABUSED THEM. BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. SPECIAL FEATURES: SUBTITLES INENGLISH AND SPANISH, THEATRICAL TRAILERS, TALENT FILES, SCENE SELECTIONS, INTERACTIVE MENUS AND MUCH MORE.
Description of Foxfire:
Angelina Jolie's strong-willed performance in Foxfire as Legs, the charismatic outsider based on the rebellious character from Joyce Carol Oates's 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 with 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 film's originality. But what's good is good indeed, and Jolie's performance remains a harbinger of great things to come. --Tom Keogh
Foxfire Reviews:
Foxfire 
2009-11-20 - I will always be a fan of 90s Angelina Jolie! She was always so real and gritty. This movie is one of her firsts. She is amazing!
Angelina Rebells for a Cause
2009-10-11 - 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.
2.5 stars out of 4 
2008-12-21 - The Bottom Line:
It's got a nice topless scene for the raincoat crowd, but Foxfire fails in terms of character development, plot, and interestingness; enjoyable enough, it's just not a very good or memorable film.
IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
2008-06-01 - ANGELINE JOLIE WAS WONDERFULL IN THEIS MOVIE AS "LEGS" lEGS IS A OUTSIDER, A NEWCOMER WHO THE LOCAL GIT=RLS, ALL WHO OF WHICH AVE BEEN RAPED AND/OR ABUSED ARE DRAWN TO. THEY FORM THERE OWN CLUB AND HANG OUT IN AN OLD SHACK. IT ENDS UP IN KIDNAPPING AND GUNS TOWARDS ONE GIRLS FATHER. JM
MY FAVORITE MOVIE
2008-04-03 - This movie has it all; suspense,excitement,action,girl-power,lesbian overtones and a young sexy Angelina Jolie. I love this film and if you love Angie and empowered women you will too. Amazing, I highly recommend it!
