Jeanie's clique

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Movie
German title Jeanie's clique
Original title Foxes
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Adrian Lyne
script Gerald Ayres
production Gerald Ayres
David Puttnam
music Giorgio Moroder
camera Leon Bijou
Michael Seresin
cut James Coblentz
occupation

Jeanie's Clique (Foxes) is an American drama film directed by Adrian Lyne from 1980.

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Teenage girls Jeanie, Annie, Madge, and Deirdre live in the San Fernando Valley . They spend a lot of time together and exchange reports about love affairs.

Male adolescents are often lied to and treated condescendingly, so none of the protagonists had any real friends at first. Madge is shy and has never had sex. Deirdre looks for a new male friend almost every day. Annie takes drugs, breaks parole, and fears her father, a police officer.

Jeanie often takes responsibility for her friends and is the only one who has her own vehicle, a pickup that her father gave her. She is worried about her divorced mother Mary, with whom she lives. In one of the scenes, she urges her mother, who is reading at night, to go to sleep. On this occasion, she accuses Mary of not taking the relationship seriously with her new boyfriend. But a dispute is followed by reconciliation and Jeanie reads from a book to her mother.

Madge befriends the older Jay. The clique organized a party in his apartment and the apartment was destroyed. Jeanie calls the police for help, whereupon the girls are arrested. Jeanie and her mother argue about each other's friendship; the mother temporarily moves in with her lover.

Annie is admitted to a clinic from which she escapes. She is taken into the car at night by a couple with unclear intentions. The distracted and drunk driver crashes into a truck. Annie cannot be saved after the accident, she dies in the hospital in the presence of her friends. Madge marries her Jay. Jeanie says goodbye to her mother after this church wedding to go to college. On the way she stops at Annie's grave, puts down a wreath and smokes a cigarette, thinking about her experiences with the gang.

Reviews

  • Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was demanding. Its core is the relationship between Jeanie and her mother Mary. The shared scenes with Jeanie and Mary are written and acted sensitively.
  • Prisma.de described the film as "differentiated" and praised the "brilliant" Jodie Foster.

Awards

Jodie Foster was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1981.

Remarks

The film brought in US cinemas at the cash registers 7.47 million US dollars .

literature

  • Louis Chunovic: Jodie Foster: A portrait , VGS Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2416-0 , pp. 67-69

swell

  1. ↑ Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times
  2. ↑ www.prisma-online.de

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