Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Directed by James Mangold
USA
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s. (IMDb)
Winona Ryder plays the 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted is a memoir by herself).
After a nervous breakdown she is admitted to Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital.
“My hands have no bones,” Susanna observes.
Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) smokes all the time
Therapy session with psychiatrists
Angelina Jolie plays Lisa Rowe, a rebel misfit diagnosed as a sociopath.
She controls the other patients, often attempts to escape and always caught up.
She forms a close bond with Susanna.
The psychiatric hospital’s patients
Brittany Murphy plays Daisy Randone, a sexually abused girl
Angela Bettis plays Janet Webber, an anorexic
Jeffrey Tambor plays Dr. Melvin Potts
Vanessa Redgrave plays Dr. Sonia Wick, the head psychologist of the hospital
Whoopi Goldberg plays Valerie Owens, the head nurse
Joanna Kerns plays Annette Kaysen, Susanna’s mother
Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) flashback
Susanna and Lisa on the run from the psychiatric hospital
At Daisy’s newly-rented apartment
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