Winning performances by way of Hedy Burress and Angelina Jolie (Hackers) and Jenny Shimizu's big-screen first attempt can't save Foxfire from spinning into self-parody. From its opening spectacles to its melodramatic climax, Annette Haywood-Carter's directorial first attempt savages the sensibilities of the Joyce Carol Oates main division from which it was adapted. Burres plays Maddy, an artsy young girl who becomes infatuated with a heavily mascara' d drifter (Jolie), and, along with other mingled misfits, is led into a life of little crime. Shimizu plays ...
