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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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