🎬Foxfire

Set in the hazy suburbs of Portland, Oregon, the story follows Maddie Wirtz (Hedy Burress), an artistic, introverted high school senior whose predictable path toward art school is completely disrupted when she crosses paths with Margaret "Legs" Sadovsky (Angelina Jolie). Legs is a fierce, magnetic, and fiercely independent drifter who carries an air of absolute freedom and zero compromise.

The girls' worlds collide when Legs inspires Maddie, alongside classmates Rita (Jenny Lewis), Violet (Sarah Rosenberg), and Goldie (Jenny Shimizu), to violently confront a predatory biology teacher who has been sexually harassing them

The school's administration swiftly suspends the girls instead of punishing the abuser, driving the group completely outside the bounds of conventional society. Taking refuge in a sprawling, abandoned house in the woods, the five teens form an unbreakable secret society—commemorated by tattooing matching flame symbols onto their skin. As their acts of anti-patriarchal rebellion escalate from breaking-and-entering to auto theft, their insular world begins to buckle under the weight of outside retaliation, parental abuse, and internal addictions. At the absolute center of this volatile storm sits the profound, deeply loaded, and intensely coded romantic tension between Maddie and Legs—a bond that ultimately forces both young women to choose between the safety of the collective or the open road.

💡 Did You Know? 🧠
Angelina Jolie's Breakout: While she had appeared in Hackers the year prior, Foxfire is widely considered the film that established Angelina Jolie's raw, untamed screen presence, perfectly setting up her trajectory toward Girl, Interrupted (1999).

Real-Life Romance: The subtext on screen carried over into reality. Angelina Jolie and co-star Jenny Shimizu (a legendary queer Japanese-American supermodel making her film debut here) famously fell in love on set and maintained a highly publicized relationship for years following production.

A Visual Departure from the Book: While Joyce Carol Oates’ original novel is set in the gritty, industrial 1950s, the filmmakers deliberately updated the setting to the 1990s to capitalize on the Pacific Northwest's thriving grunge, counter-culture, and riot-grrrl movements.

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