Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 127m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Brittany Murphy, Kurtwood Smith
Synopsis:
At the end of the sixties a girl with a borderline personality disorder checks into a mental institution for the well-heeled and allows herself to drift to the brink of insanity through her association with an unstable sociopath.
Review:
One very quickly runs out of patience with Ryder's heroine, in spite of her best efforts, and her dramatic recovery seems as stage-managed as the whole exercise in dirty washing and despair that preceeds it. Notwithstanding the stars' unflattering makeup, the picture shares its visual style with such glossy and similarly ersatz endeavours as The Cider House Rules when it should be hankering after the limited aesthetic palette of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; in short it long outstays its welcome.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 127m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Brittany Murphy, Kurtwood Smith
Synopsis:
At the end of the sixties a girl with a borderline personality disorder checks into a mental institution for the well-heeled and allows herself to drift to the brink of insanity through her association with an unstable sociopath.
Review:
One very quickly runs out of patience with Ryder's heroine, in spite of her best efforts, and her dramatic recovery seems as stage-managed as the whole exercise in dirty washing and despair that preceeds it. Notwithstanding the stars' unflattering makeup, the picture shares its visual style with such glossy and similarly ersatz endeavours as The Cider House Rules when it should be hankering after the limited aesthetic palette of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; in short it long outstays its welcome.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 127m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Brittany Murphy, Kurtwood Smith
Synopsis:
At the end of the sixties a girl with a borderline personality disorder checks into a mental institution for the well-heeled and allows herself to drift to the brink of insanity through her association with an unstable sociopath.
Review:
One very quickly runs out of patience with Ryder's heroine, in spite of her best efforts, and her dramatic recovery seems as stage-managed as the whole exercise in dirty washing and despair that preceeds it. Notwithstanding the stars' unflattering makeup, the picture shares its visual style with such glossy and similarly ersatz endeavours as The Cider House Rules when it should be hankering after the limited aesthetic palette of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; in short it long outstays its welcome.