Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito and Kirsten Dunst had all previously appeared in film directed by Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now (1979), The Rainmaker (1997) and New York Stories (1989), respectively.
When the girls' father takes a picture of them, we hear the whine of a flash charging, but dad's Instamatic doesn't have an electronic flash - it uses a flashcube.
As the sisters and their dates drive home from the dance in
the Cadillac, a white (1988-'91) Honda Civic hatchback appears parked on a driveway in the background.
Narrator: Collecting everything we could of theirs, the Lisbon girls wouldn't leave our minds but they were slipping away. The color of their eyes was fading along with the exact locations... of moles and dimples. From five, they had become four, and they were all the living and the dead, becoming shadows. We would have lost them completely if the girls hadn't contacted us.
Why did they commit suicide? The movie (and novel) do not really answer this question, though clearly the deteriorating family life plays a large measure. It leaves viewers (and the book's readers) in the dark, in particular, about why the remaining four girls chose the particular timing, group suicide, and why they wanted the boys to be an audience.
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Is the movie an adaptation or an original screenplay?
A
The movie is based on a novel by the same name, authored by Jeffrey Eugenides. Sofia adapted it to a screenplay.