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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767819589
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0767819586
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: January 01, 2000
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 5241
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Based on Susanna Kaysen's acclaimed journal-memoir, Girl, Interrupted bears inevitable resemblance to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and pale comparison to that earlier classic is impossible to avoid. The mental institution settings of both films guarantee a certain degree of déjà vu and at least one Oscar winner (in this case, Angelina Jolie), since playing a loony is any actor's dream gig. Unfortunately, director James Mangold seems to have misplaced the depth and delicacy of his underrated debut, Heavy, despite a great deal of earnest effort by everyone involved. It's easy to see why Winona Ryder chose to star in (and executive-produce) this nearly worthy adaptation of Kaysen's book, since it's a strong vehicle for female casting and potent drama. Mangold certainly got the former; whether he succeeded with the latter is not so clear.
To be sure, Ryder conveys the confusion and chaos that signified Kaysen's life during nearly 18 months of voluntary institutionalization beginning in 1967. But the film seems too eager to embrace the cliché that the 'crazies' of the Claymoore women's ward are saner than the war-torn world outside, and lack of narrative focus gives way to semipredictable character study. Susanna (Ryder) is labeled with 'borderline personality disorder,' a diagnosis as ambiguous as her own emotions, and while Jolie chews the scenery as the resident bad-girl sociopath, Ryder effectively conveys an odyssey from vulnerable fear to self-awareness and, finally, to healing. The ensemble cast is uniformly superb, making this drama well worthwhile, even as it treads familiar territory. If it ultimately lacks dramatic impact, Girl, Interrupted makes it painfully clear that the boundaries of dysfunction are hazy in a world where everyone's crazy once in a while. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - beautiful team!
Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder make a beautiful team in this psycho movie! They act amazingly in this and so convincing! You feel the pain and the torture they are going through to understand their lives! Enjoy this movie with an open heart!
Rating: - Girl, Interrupted
It was an interesting movie, however I was looking for something which more was more educational reguarding Borderline Personalities. Fun Viewing, though.
Rating: - A Cautionary Tale of Insanity and Adolescence
"In 1969 the wild ones went to Woodstock; the unlucky ones went to war but if you didn't know where you were going, they sent you to Claymoore." Such was the provocative opening to the theatrical trailer for the film "Girl, Interrupted". This short narrative, however, sets the tone and scene for the world in which 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen struggles to cope with both the mental illness she fights to understand and the world around her which refuses to acknowledge the fight she is waging.
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Rating: - Not crazy to love this !!!
Girl, Interrupted
I first saw this movie back in 2002 on a free VCD I had got. I remember buying it simply because Winona Ryder was in it, not knowing anything about the movie at all. At that first viewing it was pretty shocking and I put it away not to see it for a second time until today.
It is a wonderful movie, describing the anguish of a group of females in their youth, in a mental institution; particularly that of the narrator and protagonist Susanna Kaysen. She is in ... Read More
Rating: - Movie, Excellent
"Girl, Interrupted" is the story of Susanna (Winona Ryder), a troubled teen who ends up in a mental institution following a botched suicide attempt. Based on a true story, this film is very similar to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," expect for the fact that Susanna is self-committed and this movie has a relatively happy ending. There are a number of stellar performances in this film, and although Ryder was given top billing, Angelina Jolie steals the show as Lisa, a disturbed patient, the role which ... Read More
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