Product Details

• Actors: Elisabeth Moss, Robin Wright Penn, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Socorro Santiago, Peter Gerety
• Directors: Deborah Kampmeier
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
• DVD Release Date: February 8, 2005
• Run Time: 116 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006J281E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,964 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
VIRGIN is the story of Jessie (Elisabeth Moss), a rebellious teenager who is wrestling with her own spirituality and her family's conservative Baptist tradition. After a sexual encounter that occurs while she is unconscious from drugs and alcohol, she finds herself pregnant. With no memory of sex, and having a dream in which God speaks to her, Jessie proceeds with the belief that she is carrying the next Christ child, a belief that at first enrages and then inspires her, causing violent opposition in her community.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A First Feature Film That Deserves Attention, March 15, 2005

By	Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Deborah Kampmeier is a name to watch. Her first venture into film making is VIRGIN and though there are rough spots in this obviously low budget film, there is enough freshness of voice and technique to give strong notice that this is a creative artist of importance.

VIRGIN is a rather unclassifiable movie and that is part of its beauty. This is not a film about 'girls gone wrong', or about the importance of structured religion, or any of the other routine storylines that the title my suggest to the unknowing viewer. This is a story about life in rural Vermont (or any rural area) where the youth are at odds with the parents, where double standards are de rigeuer, and where far too much credence is placed on the town Church to relegate the rights and wrongs that rule the community.

Jessie Reynolds (Elisabeth Moss) lives for her champion runner sister Katie (Stephanie Gatschet) who in turn is a devout 'Christian' who with her mother (Robin Wright Penn) and father (Peter Gerety) attend church regularly. Jessie is out of the loop with the religion bit and while she supports herself with a paper route, her drinking and smoking bills are supplanted with a habit of shoplifting. She secretly longs for a boy named Shane (Charles Socarides) and has an admirer in another smarmy lad named Michael (Sam Riley).

Jessie gets drunk at a dance one evening and is seduced by Shane with the help of Qaaludes into falling asleep while Shane has sex with her. Jessie has no memory at all of the episode but when she awakens she feels as though she has been impregnated and insists that since she is a virgin, that this must be immaculate conception - that she is carry the next Christ child who will be the second coming of Christ! Obviously no one believes her, she is disowned by her father, begins to have visions (including a wild Hispanic woman who is similar to La Llorona - Socorro Santiago), and decides that she will keep her pregnancy instead of putting the baby for adoption the parents are requiring.

How this all works out on the end is a series of reality testing and morality testing and the result is a moving emotional setting. The acting is fine, especially Elisabeth Moss, and while a bit of judicious editing would have tightened this film, the impact is solid and honest, Given that the film is the first effort of Kampmeier, I for one eagerly await to see where her vision will take us. Grady Harp, March 05

4.0 out of 5 stars Does anyone know the name of first song?, July 10, 2009

By	Caesar (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews

My apologies in advance if this is inappropriate, but I just saw this movie on youtube and I was very mesmerized by the first song (playing as the intro credit is rolling). I couldn't find info about it anywhere. I would be eternally grateful if someone could tell me the answer. Thanks!

4.0 out of 5 stars This movie builds, January 29, 2007

By	Gary Gell "ladregs" (Van Nuys, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie starts out a bit slow, a bit meandering and its doe not feel like the description on the dvd case. But it does... just not the way you expect it, and it builds to a very emotional and devastating ending. I was trying to work while watching it, but that was impossible. It demanded my attention and left me stunned. A great movie!