Girl, Interrupted

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Summary: GREAT!
Review: This movie is the best movie out there. It has a great story line to it and it is just awesome. Very funny but very sad at times, and Angelina Jolie is the best actress out there and she plays Lisa great. Been better if Nicole Kidman played Winona Ryders part and Catherine Zeta Jones as Clea Duvalls character. They all rock but Angelina and GI are best!

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Summary: A realistic and engaging view of the 60s
Review: Everyone's seen some view of the 60s through a movie. A glamorous, drug and sex filled insanity. But we usually only see the comic side or the sugar-coated version. But not in Girl, Interrupted. It shows how a girl who didn't know where she was going could be considered lazy, leading to depression, and in Susana's case, attempted suicide with aspirin and vodka. Susanna is then sent to a mental instutution where she spends her time trying to get out of a place she neither understands or feels she belongs. Then she is tagged with a borderline personality diagnosis and begins to befriend the "crazy" women around her. A pathological liar, an anorexic, and a girl that will only eat one food are some of the results. Outstanding performances are given by Brittany Murphy, Angela Bettis, Clea Du Vall, and a spectacular Angelina Jolie. Watch this movie just once, and decided for yourself who is crazy. And who is just a girl...interrupted.

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Summary: keepin it real
Review: angelina jolie definitly stole the thunder of winnona's storm. the film is very appealing because it gives you the eyesight into the "ward", and what may or may not happen in there...
on the flipside it is nothing more but fullfiling all the "ward" cliches, not being real at all, believe me Claymore IS a hotel when compared to the actual pshyciatric ward, and the real struggle for ones breath that goes on in there....it is NOT real, it's not real at all, don't ask how i know.....

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Summary: Sad, but true
Review: This movie was awesome. Ryder and Jolie made a dynamic duo. The movie was disturbing, but so real. It is a great adaption of the book by Susan Kaysen.

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Summary: winona should have gotten an award!
Review: YEs, angelina did a good job but this film truly belongs to winona ryder who did an excellant job as a girl who gets put in a mental institution(but shes not really that crazy). along the way she runs into angelina(a nutcase), brittany murphy(who likes laxatives and chicken. and look for angela bettis(who is in may and carrie). she does a great job too. my favorite part was the ice cream parlor scene where angelina gets into it with mary kay place. recommended.

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Summary: Very good movie, but disturbing
Review: Disturbing look at mental illness, what passes as mental illness, a lack of hope for long term recovery and how human these people really are. Sad, touching, honest, comic moments, and thought-provoking.

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Summary: Dark and Deep "Interrupted" Had This Girl Raving...
Review: "Girl, Interrupted", one of the best dramatic films in 2000, brings a darker side of life to the screen, not only referring to the time period, but also to the subject matter. Set in the turbulent late 1960s, a time of drugs, politics, and war, it follows the life of Susanna Kaysen, more specifically her two year stay at the famed McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Diagnosed with a "borderline personality disorder", she chooses not to conform to the wishes of the head nurse (Whoopi Goldberg) and psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave), but to instead befriend the resident women around her. Among them, a girl who will only eat her father's chicken, a woman who loves "Alice In Wonderland", and a charmingly charismatic sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie), the self proclaimed ringleader of the group. But confronted with the reality of it all and the looming need to be "fixed" Susanna soon realizes that to truly escape and taste her freedom, she will need to confront her biggest fear: herself. Winona Ryder, with an air of innocense and a tremendously realistic range of emotions and talents, has one of the best performances in her career as Susanna, and Angelina Jolie delivers a jaw-dropping (and well-earned Oscar- winning) performance as the troubled Lisa. Although this film is not for the weak at heart (it has disturbing self-mutilation/suicide scenes), it is wonderful in the sense it paints a realistic picture free of inhabitions and boundaries to create a truly remarkable film achievement.

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Summary: It's time to give credit where credit is due.
Review: Yes, Jolie won well deserved awards for her remarkable performance. However, this film belongs to the brilliant Winona Ryder. Who did more than provide an outstanding performance. She fought for years to get this film off the ground, ..getting the right script, the right director and co-producing the movie. So without everything Ms. Ryder did to bring "Girl, Interrupted" to the screen, there might have never been an award to win. Lets give one of the worlds most underrated actress' the credit that is way past due. It's sad that Ryder is well known for her legal issues more so than her filmography that reaches nearly 30 films. "Girl, Interrupted" is an excellent film.

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Summary: best movie ever!!
Review: This movie is the best movie that Angelina Jolie has ever been in,she really made Lisa come alive. You never wanted to stop watching the movie.Angelina Jolie made the movie,it would have not been as good of a movie with out her.

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Summary: Most distrurbing movie I have ever seen!
Review: True it had a couple of good scenes but they didn't balence out the graphic horrers tha still give me nightmares monthes later. Including a scene where they find one of the girls had hung herself & cut herself up. I would not recomend this movie to the sensitive or faint of heart.
I had been hoping this movie would help me understand peoples mental health problems. Instead it would very likely drive people to fear & more desire for segrigation.