Angelina Jolie's star was rising as the butch drifter leader of a mutually oppressed girl gang. Annette Haywood-Carter's angsty coming-of-ager FOXFIRE (1996) transplants Joyce Carol Oates' novel of female empowerment from mid-century New York to the grunge-era Portland suburbs.

FOXFIRE is "directed with a great deal of visual flair and imagination... [Annette] Haywood-Carter's handling of the female bonding and her highly atmospheric mise en scene make this something rather special." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-C...

FoxFire Trailer (1996)

Four high-school girls, dissimilar in every other way, find that they are all being made to perform sexually with their biology teacher. This discovery lead...