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Summary: Real Close
Review: What could be more real in life than a girl who is told she is crazy and put into an asylum? Especially if it is real life, now that's just amazing. This movie opened my eyes and created a deep cavity in my soul waiting to be filled. I can understand how many people can relate with the characters. As a teenager, it was a release of rebellion and sadness, along with the sidelined anger that usual runs rampant in life. This comes so close, in fact, it's real.
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Summary: Movie DID NOT do the book justice
Review: Well, I almost cried after I saw this movie. Based on a fabulous book, you walk in ready to see a beautiful memior come to life. Wrong. The movie, in an attempt to give it a climax (life doesn't have a climax), invented a plot and lost the point of the book. You don't get out, there is no fun. It is a form of social control and Kaysen makes that point. The movie made it look like summer camp. But I had to give it three stars just because I loved the book so much. I offered me great comfort while I was in the mental institution. Read the book, avoid the movie!
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Summary: Thoughtful and Well acted
Review: I enjoyed this movie becuase of the sheer emotion brought forth by the actresses involved. The happiness and sadness and how it all rolled together. Not a dull moment.
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Summary: Girl, Interupted
Review: I 've seen this movie 9x. I am getting it when it comes out. I love it because every at some point in time feels as Susanna feels.
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Summary: One of the best movies of this century.
Review: This movie is one of Winona Ryder's best next to Edward Scissorhands,and all of her many others shes a real role model for anybody and this movie proves it.This movie is based on a true story about a girl named Susanna Kaysen who didn't know what to do with her life only dreaming to become a writer, who had taken a whole bottle of asprin and drank a whole bottle of vodca after it and then was sent to a phsyciotrist he descides just after talking to her for only 20 minutes that the girl was a loon and sent to her claymoore a mental institution so she could get more "rest," and then from on in the movie explores into heartbreak,comedy,and true reality,exspecially when angelina jolie's part comes in about a cold hearted dead person Lisa the two world's of susanna kaysen and lisa combined is what makes this movie a great movie I suggest it for everyone who hasn't seen it or is a fan of winona ryder or angelina jolie.
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Summary: Extremely funny and emotional
Review: Three elements combine to make "Girl, Interrupted" one of the most emotional and stupendous films ever made: a solid story, an intense and stressful setting and incredible acting by some of Hollywood's finest. Winona Ryder plays Susanna, who is being placed in a mental hospital after taking an entire bottle of aspirin with vodka. Her diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder, is never proved, but she spends one year of her life in Claymore Mental Hospital. While there, she befriends many of the residents, including the rebellious Lisa, played by Angelina Jolie. Throughout the course of her stay, as Susanna's friendships grow deeper, her will to escape becomes distant, as does her compliance with the rules of the institution. She soon comes to a realization that she must look inside of herself and discover what she truly wants: freedom. The story is based on the novel of the same name, written by the main character Susanna. Full of heart and emotion, it evokes several different fields of feeling: levity, heartache, sadness, and hope for the future. The performances by Ryder and Jolie, especially in the most harrowing moments of the film, will have you in tears. Though some consider the story to be too long, it holds its own as one of the best films based on a true story.
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Summary: You will need time to re-adapt to real life
Review: Not bad, but after seeing crazy girls during so much time, and some becoming more and more crazy, you will need hours to re-adapt to real life.In fact, A. Jolie said herself in an interview that it took her lot of days after the film to behave/react "normal" again.
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Summary: Locked up at McLean Hopital for BDP
Review: This is a wonderful movie with a great supporting cast. The script is compelling, better and richer than the book. It gives a realistic and accurate look of what it was like to be hopitalized circa 1968 at this institution for the rich . The actors are excellent and give a top-notch performance. The DVD has interesting features such as deleted scenes, comments from the director. Again, I like the movie much better than the book.
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Summary: Deeply absorbing, intense and moving
Review: This intense and strangely moving film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen, who spent nearly two years in a small private mental hospital in the late 1960s. Casting is perfect, with Winona Ryder as Susanna, who tries to commit suicide after graduating from high school is then sent to Claymore. She is superb as the troubled young woman, her expressive dark eyes able to convey the nuances of sadness as she discovers the world around her. Angelina Jolie, who won an academy award as supporting actress for her role, is also perfectly cast as her fellow inmate, whose cool self-confidence and piercingly honest remarks are a contrast to Susanna's quiet depression and sense of wonder. Whoopi Goldberg plays the role of an understanding nurse and Vanessa Redgrave plays a psychiatrist. These are small cameo roles and the star recognition of these two actresses somehow distract from the stark view of life behind the locked doors of a mental hospital. Against this background, the historical time period is authentically captured by the music, the TV news and a brief episode with some hippies during an abortive escape. It is a time of enlightened psychology and the hospital is no snake pit. As a viewer, I was deeply absorbed. I cared about the characters, wanted them to get well, identified with their ups and downs. Their individuality and humanity came through and the fine acting and directing avoided the stereotyping and maudlin melodrama that could so easily have taken over.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I didn't see this movie when it came out, just because I am not the biggest Winona Ryder fan. But then I saw this movie and I was amazed. Winona Ryder stars as a girl who has just tried to commit suicide. So she checks into a mental hospital where she meets some very interesting characters including Doctor Whick (played very subtly by Jeffrey Tambor), a Nurse (Whoopie Goldberg), and a wild fellow inmate (played wonderfully by Angelina Jolie). With all those elements, this movie is interesting, dramatic, heart warming, funny, sad and exciting. You learn some nice life lessons, while getting a great storyline out of the film too. There were some parts of the film where I was like...eh, I've seen this done before in a movie. It's all be done before. And that's right, it has all been done before. What's left to do? But seriously, even though it has been done before. This movie is great.
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