How did they kill themselves? What caused the whole situation? Please give me some juicy details for the 10 points.
2006-09-08 15:12:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Wow, it has been a long time since I've seen that movie. it was good though....
so here it goes...
SPOILER WARNING!!!
The family has five daughters: 13-year old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese.
One summer the youngest of the girls tries to cut her wrists but is unsuccessful. Afterwards she visits the psychiatrist, he asks her what could possibly be wrong. "Obviously," she answers, "you've never been a 13 year old girl." A few weeks later, the girls throw a chaperoned party at which Cecilia jumps from their second story window and succeeds in ending her life.
Then after life begins to return to normal, Lux begins a romance with local heartthrob Trip Fontaine. Trip negotiates with the overprotective Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon to take Lux to a homecoming dance, on the condition that he finds dates for the other three girls. The girls attend the dance but Trip and Lux sneak off afterwards to have sex and Lux misses curfew as a result.
Afterwards, the Lisbons become recluses: Mrs. Lisbon pulls all the girls out of school as punishment for Lux's actions, and Mr. Lisbon is fired for his increasingly erratic behavior. The Lisbons do not care for their house or garden anymore and almost never leave their home. From a safe distance, all the people in the neighborhood watch the Lisbons' lives deteriorate, but no one can summon up the courage to intervene.
During this time, the Lisbons become increasingly fascinating to the neighborhood in general and the narrator boys in particular. The boys call the Lisbon girls and communicate by playing records over the telephone for the girls. Also, Lux begins a series of promiscuous sexual encounters on the their roof.
Eventually, the girls send a message to their distant admirers asking for help escaping the house. But moments after the boys arrive one night to rescue them, the four sisters kill themselves in a suicide pact (Mary's life is saved in the hospital, but she successfully ends her life with sleeping pills a few weeks later). After the "suicide free-for-all," Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood. The house is sold and most of the Lisbons' personal effects are either thrown out or sold in a garage sale. The narrators scavenge through the trash to collect much of the "evidence" they mention.
In the narrators' attempt to understand who the Lisbon girls were and why they committed suicide, they never find a truly satisfying answer
Bonnie I am not sure
Mary put her head in the oven
Therese took sleeping pills
Lux died of carbon monoxide poisoning
So in short... the first girl killed herself cause she was having a rough time being a 13 y/o girl. Then the parents are overprotective and they won't let their kids do anything. Then trip convinces them and Lux misses curfew and the girls are then taken out of school and locked in the house. They feel so sufficated that pretty much just decide to do it. They never really say for sure...
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2006-09-08 15:50:27 · answer #1 · answered by Yooper chick 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
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2016-12-20 16:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched this movie yesterday. Was Cecilia speared on the fence? I could really see.
2014-01-30 04:02:25 · answer #3 · answered by LifeonEarth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bonnie killed herself by hanging herself in the basement.. you see her feet hanging when the boys go to the basement while waiting on the girls
2014-07-17 14:27:27 · answer #4 · answered by Kimberly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lisbon Girls
2016-11-13 11:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by mozie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to escape the pain of home
2006-09-08 21:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Christina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋