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Crzy_gurl

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Wow well overall Girl Interupted had a great cast and each and everyone of these girls played her character well and...crazy. Angelina Jolie (Lisa) and Winona (Susanna) had great chemistry together. Finding herself in a sticky situation Susanna...
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Wow well overall Girl Interupted had a great cast and each and everyone of these girls played her character well and...crazy. Angelina Jolie (Lisa) and Winona (Susanna) had great chemistry together. Finding herself in a sticky situation Susanna finds herself being thrown into a mental institution where she befriends a crazy group of girls....one in particular Lisa (Angelina Jolie). These girls may be crazy but they definately taught her a thing or two about herself. Drama, laughs, friendship, and pure craziness is what your gonna get in this movie. Its phenomenal....so watch it.

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Posted aug 19, 2008 9:25 am pt

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i love this movie....angelina and winona work extremely well together...

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Posted aug 11, 2007 6:22 am pt

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Classic movie, with classic performances. I love Angelina and Winona both in this movie. Brittany Murphy is hilarious. I can't believe how everything works in this movie, it seems like it would be awful because of some of the things but it's not...
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Classic movie, with classic performances. I love Angelina and Winona both in this movie. Brittany Murphy is hilarious. I can't believe how everything works in this movie, it seems like it would be awful because of some of the things but it's not it's definitely beautiful puzzle of pieces.

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Posted feb 19, 2007 1:25 am pt

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Yes, this movie is a classic. Why? Well, first of all it deals with every teenager's problem to find his/her (in this case her) place in society. Susana is confused and lost, and she tries to kill herself. And of course, she is sent to mental...
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Yes, this movie is a classic. Why? Well, first of all it deals with every teenager's problem to find his/her (in this case her) place in society. Susana is confused and lost, and she tries to kill herself. And of course, she is sent to mental institution. There she meets girls, who are just like her unable to function normally in real world. One of them is Lisa (played by Angie - who later got an Oscar for her performance) who is totally agresive and mean to almost everyone, quick to judge and always in some atempt to escape. During the movie Susana is trying hard to fight their "capturers", escape and get her revenge for being in mental institution, but as movie comes to an end, she has to realise that world she's been living in is just a way for her to hide from a real life. We never find out did Lisa find her way, too.
This is the movie you should see cause it will teach you that most of hte answers you're looking for are in you. All you have to do is to reach for them.

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Posted feb 15, 2007 10:39 pm pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] TNT RoughCut
  
  80
  Despite uneven pacing -- Girl, Interrupted deftly collapses then and now to create a very personal film filled with heart-tugs and surprisingly funny moments.

  by Sarah Raskin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  They have turned a brief, appealing, honest autobiography by Susanna Kaysen into a long, appealing, rather dishonest film.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  A rare movie, one that manages to be both quiet and electrifying, touching and unnerving. But it is not a great movie, even though its stars deserve for it to be.

  by Phoebe Flowers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  75
  Fabulously acted throughout.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  75
  In Winona Ryder's case, Girl Interrupted is a showcase in which her brittle, angry portrait shows she has graduated from ingenue to actress.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  The performances in Girl, Interrupted resonate, but the movie does not.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Top performances keep true-life mental ward tale Girl, Interrupted soaring, despite a script that frequently drifts into genre clichés.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  Jolie's explosive performance surpasses all expectations and renders the film a veritable must-see.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  67
  For all its somber heaviness and reverential gravity, it never quite pulls all the elements and themes together.

  by Paula Nechak | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  The movie -- even though it's based on real events -- seems unsatisfying and unconvincing.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  It's an odd mixture of an unsentimental, darkly humorous take on mental illness with the usual Hollywood loony-bin cliches.

  by Jonathan Foreman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  There's too much control in it and not enough danger.

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  63
  The story, having failed to provide itself with character conflicts that can be resolved with drama, turns to melodrama instead.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  There's very little plot, and director Mangold's attempts to make a connection between the social confusion of the '60s and Susanna's inner turmoil don't really work.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »