Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Directed by

James Mangold

Genre

drama film, biographical film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

R

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 4,192 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in the 1960s checks into a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. She navigates the relationships and power dynamics with the other patients and staff over an 18-month stay.

introspectivemelancholicunsettlingcerebralslow-burnemotionally intenseclaustrophobicresonant

What happens

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and written by Mangold, Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Angela Bettis, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg, the film follows a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. Girl, Interrupted was theatrically released in the United States on December 21, 1999, and grossed $48 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews, but Ryder, Jolie and Murphy were praised; Jolie won numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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