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Summary: I Liked This Movie........
Review: My friends have a habit of calling me insane but they are only joking of course. Yet I can't help wondering if I'll end up like Lisa (Angelina Jolie's character) or maybe perhaps Winnona Ryder's character (I can't remember her name at the moment). I absolutley loved this movie but my friend hated it. She said it was the most boring movie ever. Okay now onto the actual review: THE ACTING Winnona Ryder does a hauntingly good job at playing someone who thinks she's insane but really isn't. Angelina Jolie, I think, is Lisa in real life. She has a humor about being at a nuthouse,like it's just one big game but at the same time you realize that she has a real problem. The co stars have the following illnesses to add into the mix: a bilimic girl, a pathological liar, a girl that sets herself on fire when she was young and it's hard to look at her but she has a heart of gold, and a really fat girl. THE PLOT Susanna's mother(I think that's the name of Winnona Ryder's character) thinks that Susanna is insane but she can't admit her to a mental institution because she's over 18 so she gets tricked into admitting herself. She meets and makes friends with the other "insane" people. Her roommate, Gorgina, is one of my favorite characters. She;s obsessed with "The Wizard of Oz" and when you first see her you think she's normal but then you discover that she's a pathological liar and she's quite good at it. FINAL WORDS If I'm not mistaken I believe that this is a true story. It's set in either 1967 or 1969(I can't remember. So if you have ever wondered if you will end up at a funny farm then watch this movie. If you are a fan of Winnona Ryder(Lost Souls, Reality Bites, Little Women) or Angelina Jolie(Playing by Heart, Gone in 60 Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) or the gothic girl in "She's All That you should see this movie or if you just want to see a good movie SEE THIS MOVIE!
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Summary: Chick Flick??? Hell No, these Chicks Kick... ... that is!
Review: Girl, Interrupted is an absolutely amazing film! Angelina Jolie plays Lisa, a raging sociopath as if she wasn't acting at all. Winona Ryder and the rest of the cast are all marvelous in their roles... although the script ventures a little from the book it is still wonderful from the begining till the end. There is not enough I could say about this movie to give you the full effect of how great it is. It is my ALL TIME favorite movie and if I had enough money I'd buy a copy for every person on earth! It's just a beautiful piece of art with amazing acting...
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Summary: Directionless film muddled further with clunky dialogue
Review: Another film worth watching just for the performances as both Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder are excellent. I guess I can see why Jolie won the Oscar -- her role was showy and flashy -- but there is now no doubt in my mind that Chloe Sevigny was robbed. As for the film itself, it obviously strives to be a female version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" but the film never attains the impact of the classic because it's muddled and directionless. And the dialogue is clunky to boot. This is the type of movie where characters are constructed by giving them situations in which they have to argue and throw out descriptive accusations/criticisms at one another. There are a number of moments when the film becomes profound -- such as the examination of how certain actions from boys are perceived as rebellious but the same actions from a girl would be considered insane. I also liked Vanessa Redgrave's monologue about the fine line between sanity and insanity -- that insanity is really just the overindulgence of one's own preoccupations. But ironically, that point only serves to weaken the movie as it raises the question of how people so preoccupied with themselves can make such incisive observations about one another.
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Summary: i really get feelings from angelina jolie's eyes!!
Review: i went to see this movie becouse it's a true story. and i like winona. most of all, i know i cant resist any angelina's movie!! i got a crash on her since 'fox fire'. she was only eighteen or something that time, and i was stumbed while i saw her in the movie. since that time, i haven't missed any of her movie. i can feel that the way she act in girl interrupted is the real herself. no one else has the same wild eyes!!
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Summary: Wow that was my life
Review: I'm not crazy (or so my shrink says), but it seemed like this movie was my life being played back to me. And you know what? I liked it. There are lots of Lisas in the world, and I am one of them. I flaunt autohority and covention every time I get the chance, and It usually ends up biting my a**. The movie is about Susanna Kayson who lands in a mental insitution after a failed suicide attepmt. There she mets Lisa a sociopath, who escapes every time she needs a vaction. After an hour of crazy antics Susanna realizes that she has to get out of the ward and back into the world. The movie deserved a lot more recognition than it got and if you have ever felt like throwing a fit, and screaming wildly in public, you will love this movie.
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Summary: Have you ever confused dreams with reality...?
Review: This was one review that was hard for me to write. I saw this movie a while ago, but I couldn't write a review for lack of anything to write. Not that there was nothing to write about this movie-just that everything sounded wrong. After I kept telling myself I'd write a review "later", I decided it's either now or never. So here goes. Angelina Jolie of course one an Oscar for her great preformance as Lisa Rowe, the hearltess wacko. It's every actors, or actresses, dream to play crazy, because everyone knows how hard it is to play without looking overdone or lame, and if you're a good actor everyone stands up and takes notice of you in a role like this. Which is what happened to Jolie. But what about the other great actors in the movie? Winona Ryder plays Susanna Kaysen, who at eightteen lands in a pyscatric center after a suicide attempt. There she gets diagonosed with "borderline personality". She also befriends some unusual girls: her roomate Georgina (Clea DuVall, great!), who is in for lyring and is obsessed with the Wizard of Oz; Daisy (Brittany Murphy), who keeps fried chicken onder her bed;and Polly (Elisabeth Moss, who burned her face as a little girl. This movie is one I relate to, yet I haven't been diagonsed with a mental illness (yet). But then, you hasn't ever felt themselves slipping maddness? Who hasn't confused dreams with reality? Who hasn't ever been blue? Who hasn't ever thought they were crazy and needed to be saved? Maybe that's you, reading the review... but somehow I don't think so. And yeah, if you've never felt that... I have a feeling you will. Now, this movie is a true story you now, based on the book. I have yet to read the book but I'm looking into it. For now, all I can saw is watch the movie.
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Summary: Compelling but predictable
Review: Call it the Title IX version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and you won't be far off the mark. Based on Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her two-year stint in a psychiatric hospital, this modestly compelling but thoroughly predictable drama has the flavor of something distilled from dozens of earlier, better movies. Even so, director James Mangold ("Copland") plays fair by refusing to romanticize his petulant protagonist as a defiant free spirit. And Winona Ryder earns respect for her willingness to play Susanna as an undisciplined neurotic who often comes across as a pain in the backside. Oscar winner Angelina Jolie makes the most of her co-starring role as Lisa, a charismatic sociopath who infuses her casual cruelty with a taunting sexuality.
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Summary: One Girl On The Edge Of Darkness
Review: Some outstanding performances (including one Oscar winner) highlight this story of a young woman who loses a year of her life incarcerated in a mental hospital, mainly due to society's penchant at the time for institutionalizing even the borderline mentally infirm. "Girl, Interrupted," directed by James Mangold, is the story (based on her autobiography) of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young aspiring writer suffering from depression. After what may or may not have been a suicide attempt (she chases a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka), she is spirited off to a private mental hospital, where she is diagnosed as having a "borderline personality defect." Simply put, it means she is young, intelligent and having trouble coping with an era (the '60s) and a world in a state of flux, as well as the pressure from her parents and peers to attend an upscale university. Susanna, however, wants only to live life and write, and though she knows her own mind in this regard, the forces that surround her are too great, and she is torn between what she wants, and what the "world" expects. All of which leads her into some gray areas in which time and space as she knows it suddenly does not necessarily coincide with the continuum of reality. A powerful film that makes a statement about tolerance and the methods of treatment available for the mentally ill, it underscores the necessity for compassion and understanding of those unable to function on their own. And it successfully illustrates that in dealing with people in need, there must be a humanistic approach, as it is more involved than merely separating the wheat from the chaff. As Susanna, Winona Ryder gives a performance that is both affecting and intense; she readily conveys the angst of a young woman confused, yet determined, who has yet to learn one of life's most valuable lessons: Make the decision. Susanna has been walking a fence that gets narrower with each step she takes, until finally, her fall to either one side or the other was inevitable. What she had yet to learn at that point, was that it is better to stop before you reach the end of the fence, so as to be able to decide for yourself which way you're going to fall. That way, for better or worse, at least you know that "you've" made the decision that's going to affect your life, which makes it easier to live with. Susanna could have saved herself a lot of misery had she stated unequivocally to her parents, and most importantly to herself, that after High School graduation "this" is what I am going to do. A hard concept to grasp, however, when one is eighteen and being pulled in opposite directions at the same time. In her Oscar winning performance, Angelina Jolie proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that, indeed, there is substance beneath the beauty. As Lisa, the sociopath with an ice cube for a heart, she brings an enigmatic, intimidating presence to the screen. A soulless miscreant, she thrives within the confines of the institution by bullying her way through every day of her life. On the "outside," however, she finds repeatedly that the bravura that works for her in confinement attracts only the kind of attention that gets her sent back again. It's a dynamic, over-the-top, in-your-face performance for which she deservedly received the award for Best Supporting Actress. And, hopefully, after proving here what she is truly capable of, Jolie's career will successfully transcend her looks and that already famous pair of lips (though following this effort with the stagnating "Gone In 60 Seconds" does not bode well). The supporting cast includes Clea DuVall (Georgina), Brittany Murphy (Daisy), Elisabeth Moss (Polly), Jared Leto (Tobias), Jeffrey Tambor (Dr. Potts), Vanessa Redgrave (Dr. Wick), Whoopi Goldberg (Valerie), Mary Kay Place (Mrs. Gilcrest), Kurtwood Smith (Dr. Crumble) and Angela Bettis (Janet). A somewhat disturbing film, "Girl, Interrupted" will affect you on any number of emotional levels and will command, not only your attention, but your involvement. Simply put, this is riveting drama that refuses to let you off the hook for even a moment. There's a message in here about the perspectives and significance of society as a whole, but more importantly, about the impact an individual can make on our world and the people around us, and of the importance of forging ahead and making a decision before it's too late.
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Summary: Quietly Moving.
Review: Girl, Interrupted Score: 78/100 Been a die-hard Cuckoo's Nest fan, I could hardly wait to see Girl, Interrupted, a film, which like Cuckoo's Nest, focuses on people changing and the setting as a mental hospital. Well, although it's not quite the masterpiece that Cuckoo's Nest is, Girl, Interrupted is still very decent entertainment, and will keep audiences intrigued throughout. Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960's. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. She befriends the band of troubled women in her ward (Georgina the pathological liar, the sexually abused Daisy, the burn victim Polly) but falls under the hypnotic sway of Lisa (Angelina Jolie), the wildest and most hardened of the bunch. Will Susanna "drop anchor" at Claymore and perpetually act out like Lisa, or will she finally pull her mind together and leave institutional life behind? Girl, Interrupted is based on Susanna Kaysen's critically-acclaimed book, and the three writers, Anna Hamitlon Phelan, Lisa Loomer and James Mangold do a fine job of adapting it and the script is believable and occasionally moving. Mangled, who also directs, has put an extraordinarily large amount of effort into this picture, he is obviously committed to making it do well, which Girl, Interrupted has done successfully both at the box office and with the critics. Winona Ryder's underrated performance is one of her best in ages, and she brings Susanna memorably back to life. Clea DuVall and Whoopi Goldberg tag along to Ryder nicely, but this is in most ways Angelina Jolie's movie. She is vivid and amazing as the sociopath Lisa, in a performance which won her a Golden Globe and an Oscar. There are flaws in the film, it is sometimes a little shaky on it's feet and the 'Girls Night Out' theme is a little repetitive, but what remains is a quietly touching piece of art that is highly recommendable. Girl, Interrupted is a big achievement for all the cast and crew, and it is filmmaking of a high order.
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Summary: Eh...
Review: This could have been so much better, considering the talent involved. the acting was very good, but the movie was... well... boring. People have been comparing it to "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest..." I don't think so! That movie was far superior... I was expecting so much more...
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