Girl, Interrupted Movie Review 1999

Ryder stars as neurotic 18-year-old Susanna who, after making a half-hearted suicide attempt, is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. So, in 1967, she's sent to Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital outside Boston, where she'll spend the next two years. There, Susanna meets some young woman who are truly disturbed, including compelling sociopath, Lisa (Jolie). Yes, the story's predictable but it's also touching--just don't expect the fireworks of "One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest." Based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 127 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Teen Angst, Female Bonding, Doctors & Nurses, Period Piece: 1960s, Adapted from Memoirs or Diaries, Mental Hospitals

Screenplay

James Mangold, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Lisa Loomer

Cast

Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Liz) Moss Elissabeth (Elisabeth Elizabeth, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Mary Kay Place

Cinematography

Jack N. Green

Director

James Mangold

Music

Mychael Danna

Producer

Douglas Wick, Cathy Konrad, Columbia Pictures

Awards

Oscars 1999: Support. Actress (Jolie); Golden Globes 2000: Support. Actress (Jolie); Screen Actors Guild 1999: Support. Actress (Jolie); Broadcast Film Critics 1999: Support. Actress (Jolie).