The 1994 American comedy drama in which actress Scarlett Johansson made her film debut was based off of which novel?
Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson ( ; born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in the fantasy comedy "North" (1994). Johansson subsequently starred in "Manny & Lo" (1996), and garnered further acclaim and prominence with roles in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998) and "Ghost World" (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003) and "Lost in Translation" (2003), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told "3am Magazine": "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola.