Taglines: They dared to do what others dream of… they’re foxes!
Foxes movie storyline. 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.
Foxes is a 1980 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Gerald Ayres. The film stars Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie, in her acting debut. It revolves around a group of teenage girls coming of age in suburban Los Angeles toward the end of the disco era.
Foxes was theatrically released on February 29, 1980, by PolyGram Pictures. The film was Foster’s penultimate major film appearance before taking a sabbatical from acting to attend Yale. It received several positive reviews from critics and was a moderate box office success grossing $7,470,348 in North America. The film has attained a cult status and is often cited amongst the greatest teenage-centric films.
About the Story
A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley during the end of the 1970s have painful emotional troubles. Deirdre (Kandice Stroh) is a disco queen who is fascinated by her sexuality, likes boys and has many relationship troubles. Madge (Marilyn Kagan) is unhappily overweight and angry that she is still a virgin.
Her parents are overprotective, and she has an annoying younger sister. Annie (Cherie Currie) is a teenage runaway who drinks, uses drugs, and runs away from her abusive police officer father. Jeanie (Jodie Foster) feels she has to take care of them all, is fighting with her divorced mother, and is yearning for a closer relationship with her distant father, a tour manager for the rock band Angel.
The girls believe school is a waste of time, their boyfriends are immature, and that they are alienated from the adults in their lives. All four seem immersed in the decadence of the late 1970s. The only way for them to loosen up and forget the bad things happening in their lives is to party and have fun. Annie is the least responsible, while Jeanie is ready to grow up and wants to stop acting like a child. Jeanie is most worried about Annie and continually takes risks to try to keep Annie clean and safe. Annie’s unstable behavior keeps everyone on edge, and finally leads to her death in an automobile accident.
Annie’s death brings changes for the rest of the girls. Madge marries Jay (Randy Quaid), an older man who deflowered her, Deirdre no longer acts boy-crazy, and Jeanie graduates from high school and is about to head off to college. After Madge and Jay’s wedding, Jeanie visits Annie’s grave and smokes a cigarette. With a smile, she muses that Annie wanted to be buried under a pear tree, “not in a box or anything”, so that each year her friends could come by, have a pear and say, “Annie’s tastin’ good this year, huh?”
Foxes (1980)
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Cherie Currie, Randy Quaid, Lois Smith, Adam Faith, Jill Barrie Bogart, Mary Margaret Lewis, Fredric Lehne, Grant Wilson, Wayne Storm
Screenplay by: Gerald Ayres
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Leon Bijou, Michael Seresin
Film Editing by: James Coblentz
Art Direction by: Michel Levesque
Makeup Department: Ann Wadlington, Ken Wensevic
Music by: Giorgio Moroder
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists
Release Date: February 29, 1980
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