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1999 film by James Mangold

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Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold. The screenplay was written by Mangold and Susanna Kaysen, based on Kaysen’s work. The cast includes Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jared Leto. Douglas Wick and Cathy Konrad produced the film, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix. The narrative is set in Pennsylvania and deals with borderline personality disorder and mental disorder.

The film has a runtime of 127 minutes and was released on December 21, 1999. It received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The movie holds an IMDb rating of 7.3 and a Metascore of 51. It was rated R and had a budget of 40,000,000, earning 48,350,205 in revenue.

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Film · TMDB

7.6

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.

Released: 1999-12-21127 minDir: James MangoldDramaBudget: $40.0MBox office: $48.4M

Cast

  • Winona Ryder as Susanna
  • Angelina Jolie as Lisa
  • Clea DuVall as Georgina
  • Brittany Murphy as Daisy
  • Elisabeth Moss as Polly
  • Jared Leto as Tobias Jacobs

Themes

  • based on novel or book
  • escape
  • suicide attempt
  • identity
  • insanity
  • female friendship
  • based on true story
  • borderline personality disorder
  • psychiatric hospital
  • mental institution

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Ratings

IMDb

7.3/10

226,524 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

53%

Metacritic

51/100

Year
1999
Runtime
127 min
Genres
Biography, Drama
Rated
R
Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 11 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by
James Mangold
Screenplay by
James Mangold Lisa Loomer Anna Hamilton Phelan
Based on
Girl, Interrupted , by Susanna Kaysen
Produced by
Douglas Wick Cathy Konrad
Starring
Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Clea DuVall Brittany Murphy Elisabeth Moss Jared Leto Jeffrey Tambor Vanessa Redgrave Whoopi Goldberg
Cinematography
Jack Green
Edited by
Kevin Tent
Music by
Mychael Danna
Production companies
Columbia Pictures , Red Wagon Entertainment
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date
December 21, 1999 ( 1999-12-21 ) (United States)
Running time
127 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$24 million
Box office
$48.3 million

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English language
Main subject
mental disorder
Screenwriter
Susanna Kaysen
Cast member
Bruce Altman
Producer
Cathy Konrad
Production company
Columbia Pictures
Cinematographer
Jack N. Green
Narrative location
Pennsylvania
Duration
122
FilmAffinity ID
105526
Distribution format
video on demand
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film editor
Kevin Tent
title
Girl, Interrupted
distributed by
Netflix
after a work by
Susanna Kaysen
costume designer
Arianne Phillips
budget
40000000
box office
48300000
assessment
Bechdel test
set in environment
psychiatric hospital
review score
51/100
set in period
1960s
publication date
2000-06-15
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Encyclopedic overview

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and written by Mangold, Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Angela Bettis, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg, the film follows a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt.

Girl, Interrupted was theatrically released in the United States on December 21, 1999, and grossed $48 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews, but Ryder, Jolie and Murphy were praised; Jolie won numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

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