Girl, Interrupted

Pros: Outstanding characters, storyline, and performances
Cons: not.

When you don't want to feel... death can seem like a dream. But, seeing death - really seeing it... makes dreaming about it fucking ridiculous. Many movies have attempted to portray psychological disorders, but few have succeeded as well ...

Pros: Performances by Ryder and Jolie, real story by Susanna Kayson.
Cons: I still haven't managed to read the book.

I don't think anybody would want to spend a year in a mental institution. I suppose that if they did, they'd belong there. Girl, Interrupted the movie based on the book of the same name, gives the true story of author Susanna Kaysan's stay at a ...

Pros: Angelina Jolie's performance, realistic, engrossing
Cons: May trigger some hurtful events for some people, depressing.

Girl, Interrupted is a very meaningful film to me in many ways. I'll explain that later. This motion picture is one of those films which remains in my head and I often reference it, maybe even unconsciously.

The Plot
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Pros: Whoopi Goldberg doesn't appear in very many scenes.
Cons: She still appears in some.

Girl, Interrupted is the story of a weak-willed, lazy, self-indulgent brat of a girl named Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder). After a pretty unimaginative cry-for-help/attempted-suicide (chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka), Susanna...

Pros: Nice cast of young talent
Cons: Some disgusting parts

Girl, Interrupted stars Winona Ryder as a mentally unstable young woman. After attempting suicide by chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka, her psychiatrist recommends that she spend some time in a local mental institution.

Upon...

Pros: Angelina provides a captivating performance
Cons: The lead character isn't as compelling

Although this movie was a labor of love for Winona Ryder, it will be remembered as the break out film for Angelina Jolie, who won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this movie. Jolie, incidentally is the daughter...

Pros: very interesting to see different disorders
Cons: sad

Girl, Interrupted was a down to earth movie from my point of view. I think that it showed people that haven’t encountered this type of thing that there are several diseases in the world that can ruin people’s life.

As you all have...

Pros: Note to Winona: You go, girl!
Cons: Note to Whoopi: Stop taking those classes at the Robin Williams Acting School of Sincerity

Winona Ryder has the kind of face that reminds me of a fragile vase teetering at the edge of a shelf—one good jolt (an earthquake, a plane flying low overhead) and her porcelain features could shatter. Even from her very earliest roles (Lucas,...

Pros: Those with depression will connect with this film.
Cons: If you do not enjoy depressing films, do not watch this one.

This is a realistic and powerful drama, one that is filled with darkness, tragedy and realism. I have heard some compare this to a Lifetime movie, and i have to say that I do not agree with this assessment as often tv movies are filled with action,...

Pros: Angelina Jolie [times 10], [Where is a nomination for] Winona Ryder, soundtrack
Cons: Just an average movie

How many crazy people does one need to realize there is something wrong with that one?
How many sane people does one need to realize how insane that one is?

Sane or insane? Where is that line that one day I cross and then am labeled...

Pros: Ryder and Jolie deliver outstanding performances; Keeps you interested
Cons: Slow start; lacking in the 'action' department

Having previously worked in the mental health field, I have had a great deal of exposure to the individuals in our society who ,for one reason or another, are having a hard time fitting all of the pieces to their puzzle together. Some just need a little...

Pros: The Acting, The Characters, The Story, The Honesty
Cons: Not One Thing.

There's something more sane about a mental institution than living out in the real world that speaks boundaries on human emotion. For one thing, mental institutions hold no bounds on how you express your feelings or thoughts; it's an all-out drama fest, ...

Pros: Charming
Cons: Heartbreaking

Based on a true story by Susanna Kaysen and starring the phenomenal acting talents of Winona Rider (Susanna), Anglelina Jolie (Lisa), and Whoopie Goldberg as the nurse, this movie was a hit before it started.

The...

Pros: veryyyyyyyy interesting
Cons: Chick-flick (according to my husband)

I am always interested in movies that revolve around psychiatric conditions and nut wards. I've seen As Good as It Gets, 12 Monkey's and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and I loved them all. Maybe my fascination stems from the fact...

Pros: well-acted
Cons: poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me, poor me

I'm not into chick movies. However, my mother is, and I am sometimes obligated to see them with her.

Girl, Interrupted is based on the true-life story of Susana Kaysen, apparently a spoiled rich girl who likes to sleep around, then goes crazy....