Girl, Interrupted

release date:January 14, 2000
genre:Drama
running time:125 min.
director:James Mangold
studio:Columbia Pictures
producer(s):Cathy Konrad, Douglas Wick
screenplay:James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, Anna Hamilton Phelan
cast:Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Jared Leto
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Girl, Interrupted Movie Synopsis

Based on Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir about her two-year stay in a mental institution in 1967. Winona Ryder plays 17-year-old Kaysen, who is diagnosed with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder)­an affliction with ambiguous symptoms that almost any teenage girl could have. Prescribed a short rest at a renowned mental institution, she encounters a world of disturbed young women like Lisa (Angelina Jolie). Finding herself on a strange journey, she spends more than a year struggling on the border between normal and crazy. When she realizes how difficult it is to be released once committed, she stages an escape along with Lisa and ultimately attempts to reclaim her life.

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I belive the book was better it had more detail and was in sequence.The movie should have kept going to show who visited her.ta

Girl interrupted is the best movie I haved ever seen!!!

This movie really speaks to so many people about mental health, and the lack of proper understanding and care these people really need.

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