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Girl, Interrupted

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

1999 · 2h 7m · R Drama
Directed by James Mangold

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Overview

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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Top critics, in their words

All reviews
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Does it matter that every time Jolie's offscreen the film wilts a little? Ryder should be perfect as the bright spark; her lines are sharp as a knife. There's a gap, however, between what we hear and what we see.

Charlotte O'Sullivan, Time Out
Rotten

A muddled production that misses the jarring tone of the autobiographical book by Susanna Kaysen on which it is based. The film is entertaining, but not very powerful.

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

If only the story of Susanna's evolution didn't keep getting interrupted by everything else.

Steven Rosen, Denver Post
Fresh

The film generates real empathy, without too much let's-laugh -at- the -crazy- people humor or too much stereotyping.

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
Rotten

Unevenly structured and directed, its sensibility only one notch above that of a Lifetime telepic.

Emanuel Levy, Variety

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