Angelina Jolie’s strong-willed performance in Foxfire as Legs, the charismatic outsider based on the rebellious character from Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, is a very good reason to see this movie. Bold and larger-than-life, Legs quickly gathers a group of adolescent girls around her, each of whom has been gang-raped and is dealing in her own way with the emotional consequences. As expected, the girls plot out their revenge, but even more interesting is the intensity of their bond and rituals, the way they hang out in an abandoned house, their expressions of devotion. So tight and self-protective does this clique become that onlookers – fellow students, parents – become resentful.
