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	Girl, Interrupted :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
		Soon, with a push from her family, she has committed herself to Claymoore, an upscale psychiatric institution.
		A supervising nurse played by Whoopi Goldberg offers her own diagnosis: "You are a lazy, self-indulgent little girl who is driving yourself crazy." Winona Ryder plays Susanna Kaysen, whose real-life memoir tells of how she lost two years of her life by stumbling onto the psychiatric conveyor belt.
		Although mental illness is real and terrifying, the movie argues that perfectly sane people like Susanna can become institutionalized simply because once they're inside the system there is the assumption that something must be wrong with them.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000114/REVIEWS/1140301/1023 (603 words)

	Girl, Interrupted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Girl, Interrupted is a memoir by Susanna Kaysen.
		In 1999, the memoir was used as the basis for the film Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, and directed by James Mangold.
		The "plot" of Girl, Interrupted does not follow a linear story line, but instead the author provides personal stories through a series of nonchronological vignettes and personal reflections on why she was institutionalized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girl,_Interrupted (300 words)

	girl, interrupted
		Girl, Interrupted begins in 1967, when the 18-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) is sent to a New England psychiatric hospital after an apparent suicide attempt -- swallowing fifty aspirin -- though she keeps insisting she wasn't trying to kill herself.
		In the movie, we see that Susanna wasn't only interrupted in her life; she was, as Kaysen points out, flirting with madness, and the movie's Lisa represents what Susanna no longer wants to become.
		Susanna is interrupted on her way to being Lisa; at the end, we feel, she's begun to figure out how to be herself.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/girlint.html (677 words)

	Girl, Interrupted (1999): Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Clea Duvall - PopMatters Film Review
		In all cases, the fundamental notion is this: the girl is in trouble because she's a girl.
		But even these troubling stories of girls in trouble can be turned back round to make the girl look happy to conform, or dead, in the case of Sylvia Plath, if she doesn't.
		Which, in turn, means that the lesson to be learned, that this initial decision is wrong, that the undomesticated, rule-breaking girl is emphatically NOT the correct role model, is too easily delivered, that is, with a contrived scene that suddenly displays her cruelty and sociopathology.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/g/girl-interrupted.shtml (1281 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		Surely, the social and political frameworks change over years — said girls are menaced by reefer madness, bad boys on motorcycles, drug dealers or pimps, pregnancy, sadistic teachers, jungle wildlife, aliens from outer space, prom queens, serial killers, lascivious relatives, even icebergs — but the fundamental idea is remarkably consistent.
		And when Susanna learns her lesson — that this initial decision is wrong, that the undomesticated, rule-breaking girl is emphatically not the correct role model — it comes too easily, with a contrived scene that suddenly displays Lisa’s cruelty and sociopathology.
		On some nights, the girls steal away into the hospital basement to play with an abandoned bowling game, or into one of the doctors’ offices in order to go through their own files.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/g/girlinterrupted.shtml (814 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Girl, Interrupted"
		"Girl, Interrupted" is based on the bestselling memoir by Susanna Kaysen about her own institutionalization in the late '60s, but it's so jazzed up and so ornately embroidered that the book's rather delicate tale is completely muffled.
		Together the girls go out for supervised ice-cream outings (where they giggle hysterically when the clerk asks them if they want nuts on their sundaes) and wander the hospital's mysterious underground tunnels, which just happen to harbor a hidden bowling alley.
		Jolie is exactly what "Girl, Interrupted" sorely needs: She substantially ups the glamour quotient of mental instability, which is why, for Susanna's story to resolve itself, she must be smitten down.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/12/20/girl (879 words)

	Amazon.com: Girl, Interrupted: DVD: Winona Ryder,Whoopi Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Girl, Interrupted" is a very well portrayed true story about a young woman who has lost her way in the sixties and ends up in a mental institution.
		As stated above, "Girl, Interrupted" is the true story written by Susanna Kaysen when in her tumultuous youth during the sixties, she brought herself to the brink where, despite her denial, she'd attempted suicide and ended up in a mental institution where her life was irrevocably changed...
		based on the real life events of susanna keyson's 18 month stay at a mental hospital, girl interrupted tells the story of susanna's stay, were she learns she has a borderline personality disorder, meets a colorful cast of people from a pathological liar, a burn victom, a few anorexics, and the local troublemaker, a sociopath.
	www.amazon.com /Girl-Interrupted-Winona-Ryder/dp/B00003CWQR (2613 words)

	Girl, Interrupted (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the memoir the film is based on, see Girl, Interrupted.
		Girl, Interrupted is a film that was adapted from the original memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
		The film was directed by James Mangold and stars Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film) (480 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		Girl, Interrupted appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Girl, Interrupted is one of the few to enter that latter category; it might be the first since Good Will Hunting about 15 months ago.
		Girl, Interrupted isn't as good a film as that one, but I found it rather compelling nonetheless.
	www.dvdmg.com /girlinterrupted.shtml (2618 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		Since her family has enough money she can interrupt her life for a couple of years in order to learn how to cope.
		Since this story came from the dairy of a teenage girl I would expect the initial truths to be glossed over.
		There is her roommate Georgina (Clea Du Vall) a pathological liar, Polly (Elisabeth Moss) a girl that self immolated herself to remove a rash, Daisy (Brittany Murphy) who is abused by her father and Lisa (Angelina Jolie) a charismatic sociopath.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /girl,.htm (708 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		While the doors are locked and bars are on the windows, the girls can escape almost at will it seems, solely for the convenience of the film.
		When the story has a chance to dig deeper into why the girls are hospitalized and what needs to be done to get out, it falls flat.
		The laziness of the staff provides the girls with a way into Dr. Wick's office, who conveniently has their files sitting on top of her desk.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id266.htm (900 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		The voice that narrates Girl, Interrupted may at first strike readers as cool, intellectual, rational, and controlled, qualities normally associated with sanity.
		Most of the early sections of Girl, Interrupted are devoted to the narrator's observations of her fellow patients.
		From his struggles with the food to his affair with a local woman, a young anthropology graduate student is both repelled by and drawn into life on the Faroe Islands.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/girl (1142 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Girl, Interrupted
		"Girl, Interrupted" is a decent adaptation of her memoir of this period, neatened up and polished for an audience more familiar with gloss than grit.
		While "Girl, Interrupted" is certainly the more accurate of the two, it lacks the dramatic punch of Foreman's film.
		The direction is slick and the leads are beautiful and act well, but "Girl" is finally the sentimental and reactionary story of a spoilt child coming of age.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/06/28/girl_interrupted_1999_review.shtml (405 words)

	Girl, Interrupted (1999)
		Girl, Interrupted tells the real life story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young woman fresh out of high school without much of a plan.
		As the only girl in her entire graduating class that isn't going onto college, she is forced to deal with pressure from the people around her (like her parents), who aren't all that thrilled when Susanna tells them she only wants to write.
		Befriending the other girls in the ward, specifically an active and highly spirited girl named Lisa (Angelina Jolie), Susanna learns to cope with her condition and also learns a few things about life.
	www.moovees.com /review/girl-interrupted.html (695 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Girl, Interrupted
		All the femme critics that saw writer/director James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted with me at an advance screening knew from the word go that this flick is told in flashback.
		Scene three: same girl signs in to a mental hospital with a big picture of President Kennedy prominently featured on the wall, but her dialog is language not heard until the late 60s ("I didn't burn my bra.
		In short, Girl, Interrupted is anything but a feminized version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, though the girls will bond, there is an escape attempt and some problems will be resolved one way or another.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/girlinterrupted.html (694 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie Girl, Interrupted
		The main character in the story is a depressed girl who is not sure about whether or not she is really crazy, but knows enough to sign herself into the recuperation center.
		Someone must have kept "interrupting" the director while he was filming, and the editing crew while they were editing, and the actors while they were acting.
		She works in certain types of films, but she was really more of a supporting role in "Girl" with Jolie as the main character, to me. I couldn't help comparing it to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and the exceptional acting in that one.
	www.joblo.com /girlinterrupted.htm (2003 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Girl, Interrupted
		Girl, Interrupted is presented in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and I saw no problems whatsoever.
		And he very obviously planned what he was going to say in advance, which means he doesn't give us filler while waiting for inspiration to strike and he's not afraid to stop talking for a moment to let us watch a critical scene.
		Girl, Interrupted is a film that needed to be made.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/girlinterrupted.php (1657 words)

	Janet Si-Ming Lee's Writing Sample: "Parallel Universes"
		Susanna Kaysen's memoir, Girl Interrupted describes Kaysen's struggle to transcend across the boundary that separates her from two parallel universes: the worlds of sanity and insanity, security and vulnerability.
		When Kaysen first studied at the painting at the Frick museum with her professor, the girl in the painting with the "light muted, winter light, but her face is bright" seemed to be urgently warning her, "Don't!" However, Kaysen says she did not listen, kissed her teacher, and eventually went crazy.
		In effect, for two years, she was imprisoned in a timeless world much like the girl in the painting, longing for the freedom to mature and live in the real world.
	www.jsiming.com /parallel_universes.htm (3096 words)

	Girl Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
		Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been.
		We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.
		The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.
	www.generationterrorists.com /quotes/girl_interrupted.html (705 words)

	GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR20005
		The greatest loss of points in Girl, Interrupted was due to language, sex, and drugs/alcohol (smoking and teen drinking).
		Not less than 63 uses of the most foul of the foul words were noted and a token number of uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary and of God's name in vain, once with the four letter expletive.
		Her trouble was guilt of sex with her father; guilt which was ground into her by the lead malcontent with astounding cruelty.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/girlinterrupted.htm (770 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Girl, Interrupted: Books: Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a psychiatric award in 1967.
		However, it is her penetrating insights into those around her, from those cared for to the caretakers, that make "Girl, Interrupted" so potent.
		"Girl, Interrupted" is a credible and creditable chronicle of the lives of women in the 1960s who, through the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of society, were contained and monitored for not fitting into the "norm", the mainstream.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Girl-Interrupted-Susanna-Kaysen/dp/1860497926 (1212 words)

	SparkNotes: Girl, Interrupted: Plot Overview
		Lisa Cody, a new patient, arrives and threatens the social position of a current resident, also named Lisa, who torments the new girl until she leaves McLean and falls into more desperate circumstances.
		Kaysen introduces us to Valerie, the young head nurse, who wins the girls’ respect with her no-nonsense approach to the job and a willingness to stand up to the doctors.
		The girls come to realize that they are sitting on the sidelines of the era’s events and their own lives.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/girlinterrupted/summary.html (944 words)

	Susanna Kaysen's 'Girl Interupted' review on the official website of Laura Hird
		One of the books was Susanna Kaysen’s memoir ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ about her several year experience before, during, and after her stay in a famed Massachusetts mental institution (McLean Hospital for Mental Health) in the late 1960s that also housed Ray Charles, and Sylvia Plath.
		Kaysen is ill, checks herself in, meets girls far worse off than her, sort of recovers, foolishly marries young, then reflects on what it all means.
		We are given only hints of what happened to the other girls, but since they are only sketches it’s not necessary to know this one committed suicide, that one was ok, the other one became a prostitute.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/girlinterrupted.html (1836 words)

	GIRL, INTERRUPTED \| Mychael Danna @ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'm going to start my review off with as concise a summation as possible: GIRL, INTERRUPTED is one of the year's best scores.
		GIRL, INTERRUPTED earns 5 notes - as I can't think of any reasons why you shouldn't have this score in your collection.
		GIRL, INTERUPTED is fresh and fans of Carter Burwell, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman and Elliot Goldenthal are sure to appreciate Mychael Danna's stylish music.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/girl_interrupted.html (485 words)

	Girl, Interrupted - DVD - Title G Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Girl Interrupted is one of my all time favourite films, made in 1999 and starring that babe Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder.
		The main character is Susanna Kaysen brilliantly played by Ryder is who is an 18 year old girl who feels depressed and totally out of harmony with society.
		Girl, Interrupted : Part of Being Sane is Being a Little Bit Crazy
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-g/girl-interrupted (274 words)

	Girl Interrupted - Movie Review
		Locked away with her is a predictable assembly of whiny girls with an A to Z of emotional issues -- the burn victim with internal scars to match the outer ones, the disturbed, Doris Day-like, daddy's girl (Brittany Murphy), deeply in denial about a dark family secret.
		Pixie-haired Ryder does a fine job of portraying a girl on the edge of instability, even if she does employ the same brow-stitching anxiety accouterments she's put to use in what must be a dozen other films by now.
		Ultimately, "Girl, Interrupted" is an oddly warm and fuzzy mental hospital movie without much of an emotional hook -- and nothing at all like "Cuckoo's Nest," to which even I am guilty of drawing a prosaic comparison.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/girlint (524 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie Girl, Interrupted- Comments2
		Jolie's part as the "bad girl" sociopath was very good too, but it's an entirely different genre of crazy.
		Girl Interrupted would have been not so great if it wasn't for Angelina..
		"Girl Interrupted" is one of the worst movies of all time.
	www.joblo.com /girlinterrupted2.htm (1376 words)

	Film Reviews for Girl, Interrupted (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Not only is Kaysen a relatively normal girl suffering from adolescent confusion, but in the hands of director/ writer James Mangold and writers Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan, the world of the mental hospital in this film is bland and oh-so-average.
		Yet, the film sidesteps these issues for a more standardized story line in which all the girls are more cardboard cut-outs than really complex individuals.
		She's a girl who has lost a little bit of direction and acted out because of it.
	www.showbizdata.com /mreviews.cfm/194827/GIRL,_INTERRUPTED (785 words)

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