Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Conn
Writer: Alex Conn
Based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cast: Thomas Mann, Kaitlyn Dever, Matthew Broderick, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, Timothee Chalamet, Kara Hayward, Katherine Langford, Peyton List
Plot: Greg (Thomas Mann) is writing his college essay writing about these girls in 2015 who committed suicide who he knew. We go back to the summer of 2014 when the first girl Cecilia commits suicide. This stuns the town and all the housewives are talking about the suicide and debating about who’s wrong and who’s right
Greg is in a group of boys who spend their days watching movies and spying on the Lisbon sisters. The Lisbon Sisters consist of four girls Lux (Kaitlyn Dever), Jenny (Katherine Langford), Tara (Kara Hayward), Jules (Peyton List) and the recently deceased Cecilia. The mother and father are Arnold (Matthew Broderick) and Lisa Lisbon (Nicole Kidman). Arnold is a math teacher at their high school.
Fall comes and it’s time for school. The first day of school consists of an assembly about suicide and the signs of it. While this is happening all Greg can do is keep his eyes on Lux and he is in love with Lux. Lux is doodling.
Lux is called in to meet with her guidance counselor Dr. Fern (Sarah Paulson) and Lux confesses a lot of things. She confesses she doesn’t believe in God and she confesses that her parents are evil.
The school play is on and Greg and his friends are big theatre people. Lux wants to audition but her parents won’t let her. Greg is told this and cries in the bathroom. During lunch Greg sees Lux reading Watchmen and Greg and Lux start talking about Watchmen.
Greg goes to a comic book shop to try and impress Lux and this is at a strip mall. At the same strip mall we see Lux and a tall handsome boy Trip Fontaine (Timothee Chalamet) making out. It is explained that Trip is the star athlete of the football team. Trip Fontaine asks Luxs dad the math teacher if she can go to homecoming and Arnold explains the strict rules that they have for their daughters which causes Greg to feel bad.
The boys go to homecoming and expect not to see Lux but see not only Trip and Lux but all the Lisbon Sisters with all different guys. Greg goes to cry in the bathroom. Greg goes to sleep in the bathroom and wakes up when nobody is there. It is dawn and Lux is there and crying and Greg goes and comforts her and offers to run away there Lux says just drive me home and they drive to the Lisbon sisters household to an angry Mrs Lisbon before Lux leaves the car she says that she desperately wants to run away from here and go travel the world they share a kiss before Lux leaves the car.
The Lisbon house is on full lockdown no one leaves. The girls are pulled out of school and Mr Lisbon is fired for not bringing their kids to school. Mr and Mrs Lisbon have an argument about this decision and Mr Lisbon relents to her wishes to keep them out of school.
The boys and the girls communicate through Morse Code and one day the girls invite them over to their house to escape and Lux is smoking a cigarette when the boys get there and says she’ll start the car while they wait and the boys eventually get suspicious and go inside and see The Lisbon girls all have committed suicide. They see Lux dead in the car and the other girls dead in various ways.
Dr Fern brings Greg in for a chat about the girls and Greg confesses his feelings for Lux and Dr Fern listens with a smile.
Greg is wondering if the afterlife is real and if the girls have achieved their dreams. The film ends with Greg taking a hallucinogenic drug and seeing a future with him in Heaven having a future with Lux like having a heavenly wedding, having children. It is unclear if this is the result of the drug or if he actually is seeing the afterlife.
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