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Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay by Mangold, Lisa Loomer, and Anna Hamilton Phelan, and based on the 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen.
Jan 14, 2000 · Based on a true story, the film follows Susanna, a teenager who is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and sent to a mental institution. There, she befriends and clashes with other patients, such as Lisa, a sociopath who controls the ward, and Daisy, an anorexic girl.
- (213K)
- Biography, Drama
- James Mangold
- 2000-01-14
A movie based on the memoir of Susanna Kaysen, a teenager who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and hospitalized in a mental institution in 1967. She befriends a group of troubled women and faces challenges, conflicts and choices in her life.
A film adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir about her stay in a mental hospital in the 1960s. Critics praise Angelina Jolie's performance, but criticize the thin and predictable plot.
- (116)
- James Mangold
- R
- Winona Ryder
An 18-year-old checks into a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s and finds unexpected connections with the other women receiving treatment. Watch trailers & learn more.
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Jan 14, 2000 · A supervising nurse played by Whoopi Goldberg offers her own diagnosis: "You are a lazy, self-indulgent little girl who is driving yourself crazy." Winona Ryder plays Susanna Kaysen, whose real-life memoir tells of how she lost two years of her life by stumbling onto the psychiatric conveyor belt.
