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Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold
(1999)
122min
15 Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Jason Caro
This commendable but lightweight drama from director/co-writer James Mangold has a similar agenda to Milos Forman's classic
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
, but it never reaches the same peaks of poignancy. Winona Ryder stars as the teen who is shipped off to a New England psychiatric institution in 1967, where other inmates give her a new perspective on life. The film is extremely well cast, with Oscar winner Angelina Jolie mesmerising as a pushy, pouting troublemaker, and Whoopi Goldberg good value as a no-nonsense nurse, while Mangold makes clever use of jarring narrative cuts to convey Ryder's confused state of mind. Yet there's a definite feeling the producers were hoping to set off brighter emotional fireworks than this well-intentioned movie actually provides.
Summary
A would-be writer in the 1960s is committed to an exclusive psychiatric ward by her parents after attempting suicide, but the move seems to cause more problems than it solves. Fact-based drama, starring Winona Ryder and an Oscar-winning Angelina Jolie alongside Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave.
Cast & Crew
Susanna Kaysen
Winona Ryder
Lisa
Angelina Jolie
Daisy
Brittany Murphy
Georgina
Clea DuVall
Valerie
Whoopi Goldberg
Dr Potts
Jeffrey Tambor
Tobias Jacobs
Jared Leto
Dr Wick
Vanessa Redgrave
Mrs Gilcrest
Mary Kay Place
Dr Crumble
Kurtwood Smith
Polly "Torch" Clark
Elisabeth Moss
Annette Kaysen
Joanna Kerns
Director
James Mangold
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Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Guidance:
Contains swearing and sex scenes.
Available on:
video and DVD
Released on:
24 Mar 2000
Drama
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