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Girl, Interrupted
| Rating: | R (for strong language and content relating to drugs, sexuality and suicide) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | December 21, 1999 |
| Running time: | 127 minutes |
| Cast: | Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Clea Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave |
| Director: | James Mangold |
| Producer: | Douglas Wick, Cathy Konrad |
| Writer: | James Mangold, Susanna Kaysen |
| Distributor: | Sony Pictures |
Description: In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder-an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify-and sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself in an OZ-like nether world of seductive and disturbed young women: among them Lisa, a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape with Susanna, Daisy, a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken, and Polly, a remarkably kind burn victim. Ultimately, assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick, and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie, Susanna, like Dorothy, resolves to leave this Oz and reclaim her life.
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