Girl, Interrupted

 

 Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie,
Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy
Columbia Pictures; Directed by James Mangold
Rated R; 125 minutes; 1999		  
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder-an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify. She is sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself among the other patients, including Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape, and Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken. In an attempt to reclaim her life, Susanna is assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick (Vanessa Redgrave), and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg). GIRL, INTERRUPTED questions the boundaries between confinement and freedom, friendship and betrayal, and madness and sanity at a time when it seemed the whole world might be going crazy.

 

 "Compelling and funny."
--Sara Edwards, NBC NEWS; BOSTON

"Never have two young actresses shined more brightly together on screen."
--Jeff Craig, SIXTY SECOND PREVIEW

"Winona Ryder gives her most penetrating screen performance and Angelina Jolie gives a ferocious, white-hot performance."
--Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES		  

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