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Xiibaro Reviews: Girl, Interrupted, The Hurricane, and Supernova Girl, Interrupted is yet another one of those female bonding film. But Girl, Interrupted does not perpetuate this long lasting myth of Vietnam and Woodstock being the only important things about the late sixties, instead the film comes of as a aetemporal film. Unlike Susanna Keyson and Girl, Interrupted, Carter's story is one that should be shared with the world. www.cinema-scene.com /archive/02/02.html   (1954 words)

Girl, Interrupted - VHS - Title G Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk A film about a girl that thinks she is crazy because she tried to kill her self so she decided to enter herself in to a mental home. Girl, Interrupted is based on the book and real life experiences of Susanna Kaysen in late 1960’s America. As you've probably guessed from my name (Interrupted) I am a huge fan of this film and the book, although if I had to choose, the film would be my favourite. www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-g/girl-interrupted   (309 words)

Girl Interrupted Review: Winona Ryder's latest film, Girl Interrupted, is set in Boston and focuses on the character Susanna's stay at a mental hospital. Girl, Interrupted is a very good drama with many good laughs, but somewhat disturbing with several messages, mainly that society seemed to shun the lesbian, but accepted the incest. Other characters stored at the mental institute in the film are Daisy who is portrayed by Brittany Murphy in a sad and disturbing side plot, the girl who lit herself on fire, a lesbian (because that was very hush hush in the 60s), and Georgina the compulsive liar. www.about-movies.com /WAP/movies/2000/girlinterrupted.htm   (465 words)

Girl, Interrupted Movie Review by Anthony Leong During her two-year stay at Claymoore, Susanna kept a journal that was eventually published as the best-selling book "Girl, Interrupted" in 1993, which has been described as a witty and poignant memoir that asks what it really means to be 'mentally ill'. The biggest problem with "Girl, Interrupted" is that it is more of a travelogue, which takes the audience on an excursion into a mental institution, pointing out some of the sights along the way. And now the bad news-- despite the presence of two engaging lead actresses, "Girl, Interrupted" is a chore (and often a bore) to watch. members.aol.com /aleong1631/girlinterrupted.html   (1064 words)

filmcritic.com Movie Review: Girl, Interrupted Unlike One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which focused very strongly on patients rights, Girl, Interrupted gets stuck in the same crisis as its protagonist (Suzanne, played by Winona Ryder): it is unable to decide what to do with itself. As a result of its ability to not meddle in patients rights or politics, Girl, Interrupted ends up being beyond the highly bearable that it could have ended up as. Buy Girl, Interrupted -- the Book from Amazon.com www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/22fffe9a6e0938758625677a000d97c7/3bc21da0ff283afb08256867005e860a?OpenDocument   (649 words)

Girl Interrupted Although Girl Interrupted does tend to wrap things up a little too neatly at the end, and although it does contrive to work in every "female bonding" cliché in the book - including the old girly sing-along - it still manages to be an interesting and powerful film. Girl Interrupted has been described as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with chicks", which is actually a pretty neat summary. James Mangold's film effectively re-captured the sense of friendship and camaraderie that exists between the patients, the trivialities of their lives, the nuances and eccentricities of each character, and how they all rally round to help each other in times of need. www.moviemusicuk.us /girlintcd.htm   (775 words)

Girl, Interrupted Comprehensive Movie Review Girl, Interrupted is a film based on the book by Susanna Kaysen, Set in a famous 'Mental' hospital of the '60's where "The Bell Jar's" author Sylvia Plath also resided and documented that stay. The film has so many top notch scenes, when the girls sing 'Downtown'to Polly is very emotional, the ice-cream parlour scene is hilarious and the scene where the girls steal susanna's diary and chase her is frightening. She rebels against the nurses (main= Goldberg) and the psychiatrists (main= Redgrave)and becomes 'one of the girls', she becomes especially close and fond of Lisa (Jolie) an alluring and intense sociopath.There are many exiting and shocking scenes (as you can imagine from the basic structure) but i won't wreck it for you! www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_4096.asp   (792 words)

SoundtrackNet : Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted is a bit more mainstream and straightforward than we've come to expect of films scored by Mychael Danna. 1999 had brought about quite a variety of scoring assignments for Mychael Danna, with 8MM, Ride With the Devil, Felicia's Journey, and finally Girl, Interrupted. Though the editing of the film's first twenty minutes or so is on the more surreal side, it thereafter sets in to a linear narrative and becomes a rather "pop"-ish film with some great acting. www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2353   (503 words)

Girl, Interrupted (1999): Reviews Despite uneven pacing -- Girl, Interrupted deftly collapses then and now to create a very personal film filled with heart-tugs and surprisingly funny moments. In Winona Ryder's case, Girl Interrupted is a showcase in which her brittle, angry portrait shows she has graduated from ingenue to actress. The performances in Girl, Interrupted resonate, but the movie does not. www.metacritic.com /video/titles/girlinterrupted   (860 words)

Girl, Interrupted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Girl, Interrupted is a memoir by Susanna Kaysen. 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   (392 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   (1424 words)

washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide "Girl, Interrupted," the sensitive, well-acted film based on Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir about her youthful sojourn in a mental asylum in the late '60s, paints the psychiatric ward as, in some respects, more like the average college dormitory than the hellhole depicted in Fred Wiseman's notorious 1967 documentary about a Massachusetts sanatorium. "Girl, Interrupted" is set in a psychiatric hospital, but the therapeutic relationships (with compassionate if occasionally clueless staff doctors played by Jeffrey Tambor and Vanessa Redgrave) are not the relationships that get the spotlight. Not to be flip, but Claymoore, the exclusive Massachusetts hospital in which most of the action of "Girl, Interrupted" is set, is not the drooling bedlam portrayed in fictional features like "The Snake Pit" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," either. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/girlinterruptedosullivan.htm   (572 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Girl, Interrupted: DVD Girl, Interrupted is just a magnificent motion picture boasting some awe-inspiring performances by Winona Rider, the incomparable Angelina Jolie (who definitely earned those best supporting actress awards), Whoopi Goldberg, and virtually everyone else in the film. These special features are just icing on the cake, though, as Girl, Interrupted is easily one of the most impressive and emotionally complex films to hit the big screen in many years. Brittany Murphy is very creepy as a girl who is slowly recovering from her illness, and she provides what is without a doubt the films most chilling moments. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002Z9WD4   (1365 words)

Girl, Interrupted Actual events in the life of author Susanna Kaysen provide the inspiration for the new film Girl, Interrupted, based on her best-selling memoir. The book chronicles the two years of Kaysen's life spent in a mental institution shortly after her graduation from high school. www.haro-online.com /movies/girl_interrupted.html   (443 words)

Girl, Interrupted film review Mangold unwisely retains the episodic nature of the book and consequently Girl, Interrupted lacks fluency and pace. The girls play music to one another, enjoy games of midnight ten-pin bowling and break into the office of Dr Wick (Vanessa Redgrave) to sneak a peak at their psychiatric evaluations. James Mangold's star-laden adaptation only seems concerned with the former, reshaping Kaysen's wry account of her voluntary two-year residency at Claymoore psychiatric hospital during the 1960s into a long-winded One Flew Over The Cuckoo Chick's Nest. www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/girl_interrupted.html   (473 words)

GIRL, INTERRUPTED Based on a book by the real Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted is directed by James Mangold (Cop Land), who adapted the script with debut screenwriters Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan. After taking a tour of the facility with Nurse Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg, How Stella Got Her Groove Back), Susanna begins to unpack but is sidetracked by the arrival of recent escapee Lisa (Angelina Jolie, The Bone Collector), a willowy, whacked-out, alpha-female sociopath that manipulates the other girls in Claymoore. Some of Mangold’s flashbacks early in the film were done pretty well, but, like I said, they stopped pretty quickly. www.sick-boy.com /girlinterrupted.htm   (565 words)

TIMEasia.com: Arts -- Girl, Interrupted Optimistic in tone and yet tragic at the end, Girl is a rewarding challenge—and further proof that Korean flicks are the sassiest girls on Asian cinema's block. He takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Kwak's youthful sensibility mirrors the minds of his young characters, and the film is ambitious, hysterical and, by turns, exhilarating. www.time.com /time/asia/arts/daily/0,9754,212728,00.html   (490 words)

Articles on the Film "Karla" The $5 million film was directed by Joel Bender and stars Laura Prepon (That '70s Show) as Homolka and Misha Collins (24, Girl Interrupted) as Bernardo. The film strives for a dissonance between its portrayal of Homolka-as-victim during the period that Bernardo was on his killing and raping spree, and the psychiatric evaluation many years later, during which Homolka is a calm and controlled woman spinning her self-justifying and self-delusional version of the murderous events that led to her incarceration. Film producer Michael Sellers said this week he has always intended to donate some of the proceeds of the film to charity and he was further prompted by a McMaster university student and her friend who wrote to him. www.fradical.com /Articles_on_the_film_Karla.htm   (16213 words)

CTV.ca Homolka movie to debut at Montreal Film Fest Karla, billed as "a deeply disturbing true story" that "will haunt you forever," stars Laura Prepon (That '70s Show) in the role of Homolka, and Misha Collins (24, Girl Interrupted) as Bernardo. Advertisers are nervous, and long-time film festival sponsor Air Canada is negotiating a strategy with the festival to distance its name from the film. The producers wanted to release the film in late June, a date that would have coincided with the July 5 expiry of Homolka's 12-year prison sentence for manslaughter. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1122309763069_117718963?hub=CTVNewsAt11   (757 words)

The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - 'identity': film shall not live by one plot twist alone "Identity," a piece of elegant directorial hackwork by James Mangold ("Girl, Interrupted," "Kate and Leopold"), goes through its generic paces with enough flair and mystery to keep you moderately entertained. Like last year's "Panic Room," the springtime box-office success of which Sony may be hoping to repeat, "Identity" is a dressed-up B picture, a hunk of cheese trying to sneak into the gourmet-food aisle of the supermarket. The apparent premise, creaky though it may be, holds ample opportunity for suspense and second-guessing, and Mangold handles the revelations and reversals of Michael Cooney's script with nerve-racking aplomb. www.sptimes.ru /story/10696   (765 words)

Identity London Movie Review Director James Mangold’s previous films include CopLand, Girl Interrupted and Kate & Leopold, so to say that Identity is his best film so far isn’t really saying all that much. However, to label the film as JUST a whodunnit would be doing it a huge disservice, though to say anymore would be extremely unfair. This is the sort of film where you’ll enjoy it more the longer it takes you to guess what’s going on. www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1615.html   (440 words)

Listings for Film Four on Thursday, November 10 2005 Girl, Interrupted Film (1999) Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie are among the delicate residents of a 60s mental institution in this Oscar-winning drama from director James Mangold, which treads a fine line between sensitive and sentimental. Mayor Of The Sunset Strip Film (2004) Rodney Bingenheimer is best known as the 'independent' DJ who broke such acts as The Ramones and David Bowie on his Los Angeles radio show. Now sidelined to the graveyard slot, he still loves new music with a passion but, as George Hickenlooper's film stunning film shows, his life is not without sadness and regret, both personal and professional. www.bleb.org /services/tv/channel.html?ch=film_four&all   (370 words)

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TIMEasia.com: Arts -- Girl, Interrupted Optimistic in tone and yet tragic at the end, Girl is a rewarding challenge—and further proof that Korean flicks are the sassiest girls on Asian cinema's block. My Sassy Girl is a comedy with a difference: offbeat, romantic, decidedly peculiar—and very Korean He takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. www.time.com /time/asia/arts/daily/0,9754,212728,00.html   (487 words)

Foxfire - Rent on DVD at QwikFliks.com Online DVD Movie Rentals A breakthrough film about female friendship and rebellion, Foxfire features the star-making performance of Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted) and the film debuts of Hedy Burress (Lost & Found) and model Jenny Shimizu. Based on the controversial novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire follows four suburban high school girls who are united when a mysterious stranger inspires them to take revenge on a sexually abusive teacher. But when the local jocks decide to teach the girls a lesson, their hard-won freedom becomes a violent trap. www.qwikfliks.com /dvd_info.asp?movID=210473   (132 words)

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning Oddly, the second film in the series, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed also borrows tropes from a Winona Ryder film, this time Girl, Interrupted. Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, the third film in the Ginger Snaps teenage girl/werewolf horror franchise, teleports sisters Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) and Brigette (Emily Perkins) Fitzgerald featured in the first two films to a 19th-century, wilderness trading post at the edge of civilization. Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed were original, creative variations on the werewolf subgenre, using horror film conventions as a metaphor for the often-disturbing transformations from prepubescence into female adulthood via the other, more common monthly cycle, menstruation. www.movie-vault.com /reviews/aarvraDIeayDRngh   (132 words)

Kurtwood Smith No stranger to the silver screen, Smith has appeared in several highly successful films including, "Girl Interrupted," the 1998 Dreamworks film "Deep Impact," critically acclaimed "A Time To Kill," John Woo's "Broken Arrow," "Under Seige 2: Dark Territory," "To Die For" with Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman and Academy-award-winning "Dead Poets Society" with Robin Williams. In the mid '70s, he began working regularly at the California Actor's Theatre in Los Gatos and moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to seek film and television roles. Smith also had a starring role in short film "12:01 P.M." which was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Short Film." Additional film credits include "Citizen Ruth," "Last Of The Dogman," "Prefontaine," "The Crush," "Fortress," "Boxing Helena," Quick Change," "Rambo II," "Oscar 1991," "True Believer," and "Robocop." www.geocities.com /luv70s/bioKS.html   (306 words)

James Mangold @ Filmbug UK Mangold then wrote and directed the films Girl, Interrupted starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie and Kate &Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman with both films produced by Konrad. James Mangold made his feature film debut in 1996 with Heavy, a nearly wordless film about an overweight chef at a rust-belt tavern. Now married to Konrad, his producing partner, Mangold, the son of two celebrated painters, earned his undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts (in both the acting and the film schools) and a master's degree from Columbia University. www.filmbug.co.uk /db/36773   (337 words)

Encyclopedia: Prozac Nation Prozac Nation is also similar to Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, a book published in the same year: both were written by articulate young women describing their experiences of mental illness. Prozac Nation is also the name of an independent film based on the book. People who've experienced depression like that aspect of the film, but a lot of people don't like it. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prozac-Nation   (1280 words)

Rowe Jukebox Angelina Jolie 3: Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the film '' Girl, Interrupted ''. Additiona 83: *'' Girl, Interrupted '' andmdash; Lisa Rowe Rowe later said that she let Jackson have the chil... www.elusiveeye.com /side30480-rowe-jukebox.html   (564 words)

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