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...siblings is Lux Lisbon, played by Kirsten Dunst, the sexually prurient, mischievous sister who seems to negotiate with the outside world for the sisters. As the film progresses, she is seduced by Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett), the high school Casanova, who convinces Mr. Lisbon to take Lux to the prom on the agreement that he finds dates for the rest of the sisters. After a disastrous prom night, especially for Lux, the girls are taken out of school and eternally imprisoned in the Lisbon house. It is only a matter of time before the girls enact the film's title...
...neighborhood narrators introduce us to the Lisbon's sister and observe the girls from across their house across the street, but half-way through the movie this observation theme is abandoned, and the audience is introduced to a different group of boys who take the Lisbon girls to the prom. The original narrators return in the final third of the movie, leaving the audience to believe that the boys had no contact with the sisters in the interim. Whereas a novel can be successful through episodic narrative, a film loosely applying this technique suffers, and at the expense...
...went out 2 dinnr b4 senior soiree, this old lady at e othr tabl leand ovr n askd us if it ws e nite of e prom...
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Most adults can recall with startling clarity decades-old mistakes and moments of rejection: those dropped passes and bad prom dates that mark even the smoothest childhood. But of all the memorable humiliations of youth, none are more potent than the one that comes in a skinny envelope one day during your senior year in high school. In the world of college admissions, good news comes in fat envelopes. Skinny envelopes contain the applicant's version of a "Dear John" letter: heartbreak in three paragraphs. What can parents, who spend two decades nudging their kids forward, applauding every soccer goal...