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sabrina lantos At Free Eden, a Dallas mall boutique, four young women sell overpriced clothes, burn sage and run a secret after-hours coven. “Forbidden Fruits,” the horror-comedy from first-time feature director Meredith Alloway, is now open in theaters.
Adapted from playwright Lily Houghton’s stage work “Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die,” the film stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, Victoria Pedretti as Cherry, Alexandra Shipp as Fig, and Lola Tung as Pumpkin. At Free Eden, Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the boutique’s basement after hours with Cherry and Fig. When new hire Pumpkin arrives and challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to confront their own poisons. The film premiered at SXSW earlier this month and has already drawn comparisons to “Mean Girls,” “The Craft” and “Jawbreaker,” a lineage the cast and filmmakers are happy to claim… and complicate.
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