Girl, Interrupted

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Summary: A CRAZY MOVIE!!!
Review: A GREAT MOVIE BASED ON A TRUE STORY AND THE BOOK, GIRL, INTERRUPTED. THE MOVIE WAS INTENSE AND CRAZY. ANGELINA JOLIE HAD A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE AND STOLE THE SHOW, BUT WINONA RYDER DID A GREAT JOB AS WELL. THE MOVIE IS ABOUT AN 18-YR-OLD GIRL IN THE LATE 60'S WHO VOLUNTARILY CHECKED HERSELF INTO A MENTAL HOSPITAL. IN HER TWO- YR STAY SHE MET SOME INTERESTING PEOPLE THERE, AND FELT LIKE SHE FIT IN MORE IN THERE THAN THE OUTSIDE WORLD. GREAT MOVIE!

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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: Winona Ryder(Susanna Kaysen)has a borderline personality disorder from possibly being dropped on her head when she was a baby. When she has to go to a mental Institute where she meets up with Whoopi Goldberg(mental woman helper)and Angelina Jolie who was one of my favorite characters in the film. Angelina who is a sociopath has to many highs and lows without having any feelings, but anger is the main point in this movie. That's all Winona(Susanna) would mostly talk about in her journal she keeps. Angelina was so scary that it made me laugh. The people were so outgoing and wild it made me laugh, Britany Murphey also stars in this movie the one who stars in "Don't Say A Word" of 'I'll never tell, any of you.' She only eats her fathers chicken in her room and she was one of the weirdest people in there, but it was still funny. There is many curse words in this movie and drugs. The F*** word is used quite a bit, but other than that it's an excellent movie. I rated it a four because some scenes were not quite there, but I'm glad it was a long enough movie!

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Summary: Wonderful portrayal of the true self
Review: This movie was fasinating. I thought it really portrayed how we all have to deal with our mentality. The actresses, Angelie Jolie and Winonna Ryder were great. I would highly recommend this movie if you like melodramatic but with real world issues.

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Summary: MENTAL HEALTH, HOLLYWOOD STYLE
Review: This is really an old fashion melodrama with mental ward cliches derived from Susan Kayson's autobiographical journal of her time spent in an institution in the late 1960s after a suicide attempt. Angelina Jolie's much acclaimed performance as a schizophrenic vixen is worthy of the Supporting Oscar she received but Winona Ryder is equally as good in the lead role of a young woman whose ambivalence causes her to close the door on the world around her. The film rolls along at a steady pace with familiar dramatic plot elevations and the mental ward girls are so frivolous and predictable it's as if the orphans from "Little Orphan Annie" have grown up and gone nuts. Vanessa Redgrave as The Psychiatrist with the power to grant freedom seems very much the same psychiatrist from the first Hollywood film to realistically deal with mental incarceration, "The Snake Pit", from 1948 starring Olivia de Havilland. Whoopie Goldberg is here as well playing a kindly mental health worker. Depending on your point of view this DVD is either fine melodrama or a Junior Miss 'Bell Jar'.

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Summary: Incredible acting, and a depressing but realistic portayal
Review: This is a movie where Wynona Ryder interrupts her life to take a year stay at a mental clinic (set in the 1960s). Wynona has no friends, nor anything to live for, but she finds life and friends in the institution. Incredible acting from the entire cast, Ryder, Jolie, Whoopie Goldberg and a slew of others, however there is a downfall that this movie is extremely depressing, but that is what gets Oscars. Depressing because of the real problems that some have in their life or someone else's and certain racial slurs to get on the nerves of nurse Whoopie. If you are a happy or perfect person this movie is not for you, but if you want a story of human life and its problems this is a realistic portrayal. As for the DVD features, they are all great, a making of documentary, trailers, must see removed scenes. This is what a DVD is all about.

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Summary: Totally different from the novel--but equally good
Review: The film, chronicling the true-life story of Susanna Kaysen's stay in McLean Psychiatric hospital and the colorful characters she meets there, is completely different from the author's memoir. This is partly because the book is lacking in a plot but is more an excavation of what it actually was which made Susanna Kaysen unwell. Also, Hollywood was not looking for the undramatic yet impacting end which Kaysen ends her memoir with, they needed something more embellished. Neither one is better than the other, both of them serving as worthwhile endeavors, yet they are sort of incomparable. Nevertheless, this is an excellent motion picture portrayal of life in a psychiatric hospital.

The movie, starring Winona Ryder as disillusioned Kaysen, is one of subtle performances intermittent with slashes of intense, whirling drama. From the very beginning, your heart is in spasms as the scene cuts into Kaysen's suicide attempt, with a tube being rammed down Winona Ryder's mouth. Actress Angelina Jolie won her Academy award for her part as sociopathic Lisa, and it is easy to see why. She leaves no table unturned (literally), no thought unsaid (or screamed) and depicts what it really means to lose control. There is Whoopi Goldberg as the no-nonsense, yet warm-hearted headnurse, Clea Duvall as mild-mannered pathological liar, and Brittany Murphy as the aversive, isolated Daisy, a bulimic whose incestuous relationship with her father leads to tragedy.

You will not be disappointed by the thoughtful, evocative film, 'Girl, Interrupted'.

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Summary: An Oscar for Wynona
Review: All right, Whoopie Goldberg is not Louise Fletcher but I'll always hold that Girl, Interrupted is the One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest of the new millennia. Part examination of existential angst, part redemption through suffering, the movie examines the lives of characters who find different ways to cope with their respective maladies. With the constant references to mental disorders as diseases and subtle shots at the mental health profession, this movie takes you to a new understanding of the possibilities that understanding can achieve.

Wynona Rider plays the Borderline Personality Disorder to the hilt and deserves the Academy Award for this film, if any, in her young career. Angelina Jolie plays herself and garnered a Best Supporting Actress award overshadowing the achievements of Rider. The supporting were exactly that, supporting and no one seemed to overplay their part.

Not your typical Sunday afternoon movie, the predictable plot weaves you through the murky waters of a very complex issue. The movie is about process. To whatever extent the movie plays it out, it is less a show of angst, anger and critique of the mental health profession but rather a movie about process - that there is a possible resolution at the end of the tunnel and things are not always what they seem. I really enjoyed the movie and recommend it highly.

Miguel Llora

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Summary: Too small Winona
Review: When I watched this DVD I was extrememly disapointed in it. It was too small on many ways first there was Winona, the hunched thinner-than-Belsen look, she adopted in cheap clothes was very irritating. I felt all this " depression" was about not being able to go to the right university,(and she did not even have the guts to try). Her "borderline personality" (what does that mean?) was really "I am so so sorry for myself" and that was all. Apart from the performance of Angelina Jolie this film had very little to recommend it little story, little science, little pyschiatry, little jokes (oh how funny to put Whoopi in the part of a caucasion nurse and then make a whole speech about her being a negro) and a little spiteful and unrealistic dig at the end. Oh yes, a sociopathic criminally insane person such as Jolie would crumple at the spiteful little speech given by Winona in the dark dark basement. I have worked in an asylum and that is not the reaction of a dangerous excited mental patient, and it is dangerous to portray it as such. Maybe the book is better, but this film is a self indulgent (no wonder Winona had to produce it) fairy story about a very ordinary girl, not worth the effort.

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Summary: AWESOME
Review: This is an awesome movie. Angelina Jolie is absolutely great in this! If you don't buy it then at least try renting it if you dont believe me!

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Summary: Angelina Jolie Shines
Review: This is a great movie. It made me cry so many times. As a fan of Angelina Jolie, I have to say she did a brilliant job. I have watched this movie about 50,000,000,000,000,000 times. I always put myself in Lisa's shoes, and it is remarkable. I had all of Angelina Jolie's lines memorized in one week, and Winnona's in the next week. You will definitly love this movie.