Girl, Interrupted
by James Mangold
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Actor: Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, Clea DuVall, Elisabeth Moss, Winona RyderDirector: James Mangold
Brand: Sony
Writer: James Mangold
Producer: Carol Bodie
Producer: Cathy Konrad
Producer: Douglas Wick
Writer: Anna Hamilton Phelan
Writer: Lisa Loomer
Writer: Susanna Kaysen
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Girl, Interrupted
DVD Review: borish fantasy
Summary: 1 Stars
I agree with the Amazon reviewers first two points. its a coocoo's nest setup and actors love to play loonies so they can get away with over blown performances.
would you pay money to be locked in the room with a borderline personality? HELL NO!!! in real life borderlines are incurable. theyre damage too severe - their personalities too scrambled. fortunately this movie is very inconsistant - and plays fast and loose with the actual mental illness part of the story.
really the story is about actresses. you get a borish depressed winona and an agressive bitchy angelina. you may find that entertaining. but i found it dull and annoying.
DVD Review: Ambivalent. It's my new favorite word.
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps it's because I empathize with the main character Suzanna, but this movie draws you in from the very beginning. I remember watching it for the first time in 8th grade with my best friend. She picked it out and I wasn't exactly thrilled about it, but from scene one, I couldn't look away. It's not everyone's cup of tea, I'm sure, but for those of us who aren't perfect, it's a masterpiece. Nine years later, this is still one of my favorite movies... in fact, I just watched it yesterday.DVD Review: girl, interrupted
Summary: 5 Stars
This item came on time and in perfect condition. The movie was very good. Thank you.
Sherri McLain
DVD Review: Incredible
Summary: 5 Stars
This truely is one of the best movies ever made, I love it so much.
Based on the novel by Susanna Kaysen about the 18 months she spent in a mental institution for depression and Borderline Personality Disorder when she was 18 (which is a true story). Although I think that anybody would enjoy this movie, it's special to me because I also suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder myself and it's nice to see a movie which handles the subject sensitively.
Borderline Personality Disorder was a very controversial diagnosis in the 1960s (when this movie takes place), as even less was known about it than is now. Very little research was done into it back but the general diagnosis criteria and known sympoms were still the same:
1. Extreme black and white thinking (unable to see the grey area).
2. Unstable relationships characterised between feelings of idealation (love and adoration) and devaluation (anger and dislike).
3. Impulsivity, usually in self-destructive areas (e.g. binge eating, alcohol abuse, reckless driving, excessive spending and building up debt).
4. Mood swings between base (normal) mood, anxiety, irritability and depression.
5. Suicides threats or attempts or self mutilation (cutting, punching etc)
6. Irrational (to others) fear of abandonment and of being alone.
7. Outbursts of anger.
8. Shakey sence of self image - unsure about life goals, ambitions and belives such as what type of friends and lovers to have, carrer paths an sexual orientation.
9. Chronic and persistant feelings of emptyness (also described as boredom or loneliness).
The move is nicely paced and gets Susanna into the mental hospital within the first 10 or 15 minutes.
The characters include Polly (a schizophrenic who purposely set herself on fire as a child); Janet (an anorexic); Geogina, Susanna's room-mate (a pathological liar) and Lisa (a sociopath). The characters are all amazing well fleshed out and acted. They have very real and brilliantly acted emotions and personalities and are very beliveable as real people.
Susanna (Winona Ryder) and Lisa (Angelina Jolie) are particularly good in this movie.
A stunning and moving story of Susanna's illness and recovery and the nature of people and of mental ilness. It does a wonderfull job of removing some of the stigma that people associate with mental illness.
I would reccomend this movie in particular to people who are interested in mental illness or psychology or have such an ilness themselves (especially BPD) but also to anybody looking for a good movie. This is one of the best.
DVD Review: Excellent Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoy this movie and have watched it over and over again. It tells the story of Susanna when she is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a year, it has both funny and sad moments as life tends to contain. The movie contains a wide range of unique characters and a wide variety of scenes which is the thing I like about it, it seems it always has something different going on in each scene. There is a graphic suicide scene so if that is something that bothers you, this wouldn't be a movie that you would enjoy. This is a movie you can laugh along with the characters and cry along with them which is why I like it, you can sense what each character would have been feeling. I think all the actors did an excellent job in the movie.
Description of Girl, Interrupted
After a botched suicide attempt Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) checks herself into a renowned psychiatric hospital where she meets a group of troubled young women including the charming sociopath Lisa (Angela Jolie) and soon realizes she ll have to fight for her sanity -- and her freedom.System Requirements:Starring: Whoopi Goldberg Angelina Jolie Jared Leto Vanessa Redgrave and Winona Ryder. Directed By: James Mangold. Running Time: 127 mins. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright: 2000 Columbia Tri Star Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?043396047464Based 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 d?j? 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 clich? 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
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