Character Relationship Map: Foxes

Characters

• Jeanie (played by Jodie Foster) — protagonist

  Jeanie is one of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley and the most responsible of the group. She feels obligated to care for the others, especially Annie, while resisting her divorced mother'...

• Annie (played by Cherie Currie) — supporting

  Annie is a teenage runaway whose drinking, drug use, and unstable behavior keep the group on edge. She runs from her abusive police officer father, while Jeanie repeatedly takes risks to keep her clea...

• Madge (played by Marilyn Kagan) — supporting

  Madge is one of the four friends, unhappily overweight and angry that she remains a virgin. She resents her overprotective parents and annoying younger sister. After Annie's death, Madge marries Jay,...

• Deirdre (played by Kandice Stroh) — supporting

  Deirdre is one of the four teenage friends and a disco queen fascinated by her sexuality. She likes boys and experiences repeated relationship troubles, reflecting the group's alienation and late-1970...

• Jay (played by Randy Quaid) — supporting

  Jay is an older man who becomes involved with Madge. He is the first person with whom Madge has sex, and after Annie's death he marries her. His relationship with Madge represents one of the significa...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Madge → Jay (Romantic Partner) — Jay becomes Madge's older romantic partner and husband.

  Madge has sex for the first time with Jay, an older man, and later marries him.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Madge → Deirdre (Social Close Friend) — Their relationship is grounded in the shared friendship circle.

  Madge and Deirdre are included among the four girls whose parties and personal troubles form the film's central group story.

• Annie → Deirdre (Social Close Friend) — They share the group's social world despite Annie's greater instability.

  Annie and Deirdre belong to the same group of four girls who party together and feel alienated from adults.

• Annie → Madge (Social Close Friend) — Their friendship is established through their shared membership in the group.

  Annie and Madge are both members of the four teenage girls who spend time together and respond to shared emotional troubles.

• Jeanie → Deirdre (Social Close Friend) — Their friendship is part of the film's central teenage group dynamic.

  Jeanie and Deirdre are two members of the four-girl group that parties together and shares alienation from adults.

• Jeanie → Madge (Social Close Friend) — Jeanie and Madge belong to the same close-knit circle of friends.

  Jeanie, Madge, Annie, and Deirdre are described as a group of four teenage girls who share parties and emotional troubles.

• Jeanie → Annie (Alliance Protective Friend) — Jeanie acts as Annie's primary protector within the group.

  Jeanie is most worried about Annie and repeatedly takes risks to keep her clean and safe.

Story Analysis

Four alienated teenage girls move from reckless escape toward painful maturity after Annie's death.

Plot Progression

1. Valley Girls in Decline — Four teenage girls in the late-1970s San Fernando Valley reject school and feel alienated from adults. Parties become their shared escape from painful personal problems.
2. Private Troubles Surface — Deirdre struggles with relationships, Madge resents her circumstances, Annie runs away and uses substances, and Jeanie feels responsible for everyone. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained by...
3. The Risk of Rescue — Jeanie takes repeated risks to keep Annie clean and safe, but Annie's instability keeps the group on edge. The girls' shared escape gradually becomes dangerous.
4. Loss Changes Everything — Annie dies in an automobile accident, forcing the surviving girls to confront the consequences of their earlier lives. Her death becomes the film's central emotional rupture.
5. Growing Beyond Grief — Madge marries Jay, Deirdre changes her behavior, and Jeanie graduates while preparing for college. At Annie's grave, Jeanie remembers her with sadness and affection.