Foxfire
Foxfire is a 1996 American teen drama film directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, it examines the coming of age of four high school girls who meet up with a mysterious and beautiful drifter.
Plot
Maddie Wirtz is a high school senior living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Her plans to coast through her last school year before college are waylaid when she meets another teenage girl, "Legs," a drifter who takes shelter from the rain inside Maddie's school. The same day she meets them, Legs convinces Maddie and fellow students Rita Faldes and Violet Kahn to confront Mr. Buttinger, a teacher who has been sexually harassing Rita and Violet. Maddie, Rita, and Violet flee after the confrontation turns violent, witnessed by student Goldie Goldman, who flees with them. Later, Legs finds Maddie at her house from the address in a notebook Maddie dropped in Mr. Buttinger's classroom. Legs spends the night at Maddie's house and bonds with her further in the morning before school.
More details
| author | Joyce Carol Oates |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Portland |
| director | Annette Haywood-Carter |
| editor | Louise Innes |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | abandoned house art school break bus stop engage get together injured juvenile prison kick out learn morning new york city on the road portland oregon principal steal tattoo teenage girl voice-over walk |
| musicBy | Michel Colombier |
| producer | Jeffrey Lurie John Bard Manulis John P. Marsh |
| productionCompany | Chestnut Hill Productions Red Mullet Productions Rysher Entertainment |
| publisher | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
| theme | female buddy feminist high school independent lgbt-related teen drama |