FOXES

A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley during the end of the 1970s have painful emotional troubles. Deirdre is a disco queen who is fascinated by her sexuality, likes boys, and has many relationship troubles. Madge is unhappily overweight and angry that she is still a virgin. Her parents are overprotective, and she has an annoying younger sister. Annie is a teenage runaway who drinks, uses drugs, and runs away from her abusive police officer father. Jeanie feels she has to take care of them all, is fighting with her divorced mother, who cycles through different boyfriends and is yearning for a closer relationship with her distant father, a tour manager for the rock band Angel.

The girls believe school is a waste of time, their boyfriends are immature, and they are alienated from the adults. All four seem immersed in the decadence of the late 1970s. The only way for them to loosen up and forget the bad things happening in their lives is to party and have fun. Annie is the least responsible, while Jeanie is ready to grow up and wants to stop acting like a child. Jeanie is most worried about Annie and continually takes risks to try to keep Annie clean and safe. Annie's unstable behavior keeps everyone on edge and finally leads to her death in an automobile accident.

Annie's death brings changes for the rest of the girls. Madge marries Jay, an older man with whom she first has sex; Deirdre no longer acts boy crazy; and Jeanie graduates from high school and is about to head off to college. After Madge and Jay's wedding, Jeanie visits Annie's grave and smokes a cigarette. With a smile, she muses that Annie wanted to be buried under a pear tree, "not in a box or anything", so that each year her friends could come by, have a pear, and say, "Annie's tastin' good this year, huh?"

Annie dies in an automobile accident, deeply affecting her friends. Madge marries Jay, Deirdre matures, and Jeanie prepares for college, reflecting on Annie's memory at her grave.

The ending marks a turning point for the group: Annie's tragic fate propels the other girls into the next phase of their lives, each forever altered by loss and the hard lessons of adolescence. The final scene, with Jeanie at Annie's grave, is a bittersweet meditation on memory, resilience, and the way friendships shape—and sometimes haunt—our passage into adulthood.