Girl, Interrupted

About Girl, Interrupted

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 belon…

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film directed by James Mangold. The film is filed under mental illness, compassionate, psychiatrist, and suicide attempt.

Winona Ryder appears as Susanna, Angelina Jolie as Lisa, Clea DuVall as Georgina, and Brittany Murphy as Daisy. It runs 127 minutes and was released in December 1999.

The screenplay is by Anna Hamilton Phelan and James Mangold. Produced by Red Wagon Entertainment. It is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel.

Patch Adams, Mad to Be Normal, and Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy make useful companions to Girl, Interrupted, all filed under 1960s, medical drama, and psychiatric hospital. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 4,295 votes and it carries a R rating.