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Girl,
interrupted
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Movie
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| Director
& cast
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Book: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Movie: Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Premise
movie:
"Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she
discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some
delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of
her parents' friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of
aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she
denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore
is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina
is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy
won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the
biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the
biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a
history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is
not a problem... Susanna's boyfriend Toby is concerned that she
seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends..."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/plotsummary
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Premise
book:
"In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd
never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a
taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two
years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as
renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell,
James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of
treating those who could afford its sanctuary.
Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while
providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.
It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the
kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl,
Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching
document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and
insane, mental illness and recovery."
from:
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/
display.pperl?isbn=0679746048
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Author:
"Susanna Kaysen is the author of books that are in varying degrees
related to her personal experiences. She worked as a free-lance
editor and proof reader until an introduction to an agent set her
career in motion. The novel that caught the agent's attention,
Asa, As I Knew Him, was published in 1987 and received solid reviews.
Kaysen followed up the success of her first book three years later
with a second novel, Far Afield. Kaysen's third book, Girl,
Interrupted, won both accolades for her and media attention for the
book."
from:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=author
&authorID=165
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Director:
James Mangold
Cast:
Wynona Ryder (Susanne Kaysen), Angelina Jolie (Lisa Rowe),
Clea duVall (Georgina Tuskin), Brittany Murphy (Daisy
Randone), Elisabeth Moss (Polly), Vanessa Redgrave (Dr. Sonia Wick), Whoopi
Goldberg (Valerie Owens) and others.
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