Terrible film with Angelina Jolie starting off her career.

She comes into a school and goes around unchallenged by a security guard. Walking into a biology class, she sees that the teacher is harassing a student for refusing to cut up a frog. It turns out that the teacher has been doing more than just that to his female students.

Jolie, known as Legs, finally jumps the teacher with 4 other girls.

They are suspended by Principal Parks. (Richard Beymer) Sad to see that Beymer's career has come to this playing a non-understanding principal. The part is gratefully brief.

The girls are suspended and come back to the school with Legs since one of them has to retrieve papers. A lit match ignites a fire and the sprinkler system goes on. Even with the arrival of the police, the girls manage to flee to a hidden abandoned house where they dance and act like the brats they are.

Of course, there is a stolen car episode and a gun going off and hitting one of the parents. Seems his daughter, Goldie, is on drugs.

There is entirely too much going on here.

Legs thankfully leaves and Matty is suddenly no longer afraid of heights.

The writing is contrived. The ideas are out of inner sanctum. A very poor movie with no way out other than turning it off.

Maddy Wirtz (Hedy Burress) can't wait to graduate and go to art school. She has no connection to anyone in school other than her boyfriend Ethan Bixby (Peter Facinelli). Then rebellious Legs Sadovsky (Angelina Jolie) shows up and turns her world upside down. Legs comes to the aid of beaten down Rita Faldes (Jenny Lewis). In the bathroom, Rita tells the girls that teacher Mr. Buttinger keeps her in detention where he gropes her. School slut Violet Kahn (Sarah Rosenberg) backs it up with a similar claim. The girls with spaced-out Goldie Goldman (Jenny Shimizu) confront the teacher. The girls are suspended. They find a gathering place in an abandoned home.

This movie is adapted from a novel of a girl gang in the 50s. The movie starts out great. It builds up to the confrontation with Buttinger. It's terrific. While the movie diverges from the novel, I wish it diverge more by concentrating on the Buttinger situation. The girls aren't the same as the girls in the novel. It seems to me that these girls in the movie would narrow their focus on Buttinger. It's a question left hanging. The further away the movie goes, the less compelling it becomes. The movie tries to hit the big notes in the novel but it may be better off rewriting more of it.

Foxfire great story of young teenage girls who come together to form a family. Story of love sharing and caring