“Shrewd, tough, and lively – a junior-league  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

- Owen Gleiberman

“Ends up suffering from the classic diseases of book-to-film adaptation: triteness, overreliance of narration, and a general ‘need’ to impose classic dramatic structure on what is not a particularly dramatic narrative”

- Gemma Files

Girl, Interrupted

Based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir of committing herself to a mental institution and being held there for 1½ years. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elizabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary Kay Place, Travis Fine. Director: James Mangold (1999, R)