Genre: Drama, True Story, Mental Institution, Doctor, Mental Illness, Drugs, Escape, Teenage, Melodrama, Psychodrama, Coming Of Age
Tagline: Based on a true story
Plot: It's 1967, and 17 year old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers her age—confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her. The psychiatrist she meets with (courtesy of her parents), however, gives this behavior a name—Borderline Personality Disorder, "manifested by uncertainty about self-image, long-term goals, types of friends or lovers to have, and which values to adopt"—and whisks her away to Claymoore. Here, Susanna discovers Lisa, Daisy, Georgina, Polly and Janet—a group of offbeat young women who not only become her closest friends, but light Susanna’s way back to someone she had lost—herself.Columbia Pictures, in association with Red Wagon Productions and Konrad Pictures, presents Girl, Interrupted, a wry chronicle of Susanna’s two years at Claymoore that questions the boundaries between confinement and freedom, friendship and betrayal, and madness and sanity at a time when it seemed the whole world was going crazy. At the hospital—"the other Ivy League"—Susanna loses herself in a world of eccentric young women, among them Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath; Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered "Daddy’s girl" with a predilection for rotisserie chicken and laxatives; and Polly (Elisabeth Moss), a
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Winona Ryder
Edward Scissorhands, Alien: Resurrection, Beetle Juice |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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 | Jared Leto
Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, Panic Room |
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