Girl, Interrupted

Based On the book by Susanna Kaysen

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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Release date:

December 21, 1999

Director:

James Mangold

Cast:

Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor

Genre:

Drama, Biographical

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1999 in adaptations