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Girl, Interrupted
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
1999 · Directed by James Mangold · 127 min · Drama · 29 frames
Tagline
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
Crew
- Screenplay: Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer
- Cinematography: Jack N. Green
- Edited by: Kevin Tent
- Music: Mychael Danna
- Production design: Richard Hoover
- Produced by: Cathy Konrad, Douglas Wick
Cast
- Winona Ryder as Susanna
- Angelina Jolie as Lisa
- Clea DuVall as Georgina
- Brittany Murphy as Daisy
- Elisabeth Moss as Polly
- Jared Leto as Tobias Jacobs
- Jeffrey Tambor as Dr. Potts
- Vanessa Redgrave as Dr. Wick
- Whoopi Goldberg as Valerie
- Angela Bettis as Janet
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Red Wagon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $48,350,205
- Themes: suicide, based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, psychiatric hospital
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