Welcome back for another edition of A Second Look with Jeff Stockton! In this segment I will take a "second look" at a past LRF release with a fresh set of eyes.
With Hideaway star Timothee Chalamet back on the big screen after a handful of seasons of being more selective with the jobs he takes, I decided to take a second look at his Season 13 film, The Virgin Suicides.
When the film was released 18 seasons ago, I was not particularly fond of the film. Greg, the main character played by Thomas Mann, was a poorly-acted, poorly-cast, passive, and aimless protagonist. It felt like Alex Conn merely took a couple of plot points and a few characters from Jeffrey Eugenides' novel (and it seemed like he really probably only watched Sofia Coppola's film rather than reading the novel) and used it as a basic framework for a standard Alex Conn teen angst drama.
Taking a second look at it now, it feels even more apparent that Conn's adaptation simply did not work. He didn't add anything productive to the source material, instead he took out things that worked and added things that didn't work at all. Talented performers like Nicole Kidman, Kaitlyn Dever, and Timothee Chalamet, etc. are left on the sideline while we are stuck with an unlikable poorly developed Greg in scene after scene.
The Virgin Suicides Link: https://lrfdatabase.weebly.com/the-virgin-suicides.html
Original Grade: C-
New Grade: D-
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