Girl, Interrupted
Director: James Mangold
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Duration: 127 mins
Rating: 15
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg
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Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's book of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s. Susanna is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960's. A suicide attempt lands her in a mental institution. She befriends the band of troubled women in her ward (Georgina the pathological liar, the sexually abused Daisy, the burn victim Polly) but falls under the hypnotic sway of Lisa, the wildest and most hardened of the bunch. Will Susanna "drop anchor" at the institution and perpetually act out like Lisa, or will she finally pull her mind together and leave institutional life behind?