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It's pathetic. Susanna : I've wasted a year of my life. Maybe everybody out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is "stupid" and "ignorant". But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, then down here with you. Sign In. Play trailer Biography Drama. Director James Mangold. Top credits Director James Mangold. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Girl, Interrupted.

Clip Interview Video Photos Top cast Edit. Winona Ryder Susanna as Susanna. Angelina Jolie Lisa as Lisa. Clea DuVall Georgina as Georgina. Brittany Murphy Daisy as Daisy. Elisabeth Moss Polly as Polly. Jeffrey Tambor Dr. Potts as Dr. Vanessa Redgrave Dr. Wick as Dr. Whoopi Goldberg Valerie as Valerie. Angela Bettis Janet as Janet. Jillian Armenante Cynthia as Cynthia. Alison Claire Gretta as Gretta. Christina Myers Margie as Margie. Joanna Kerns Annette as Annette. Travis Fine John as John.

Josie Gammell Mrs. McWilley as Mrs. James Mangold. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In , Susanna Kaysen had a headache and chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. Which, in turn, can be vital for those who may feel that there's something inordinately wrong with them, when in reality they're having an experience shared in one way or another by countless others. If I had seen this movie at 19, I would have taken a lot of comfort in it… Life is just weird. Life is a mess. This world is a mess, and anyone who understands this world I would worry about… We're normal to feel crazy, in a way.

Indeed, almost everyone knows what it's like to feel as if you're losing your mind—or at least to be looked at by others as if you are. James Mangold , then known mainly for the gritty indie drama Copland that got a lot of attention before it came out because of Sylvester Stallone 's weight gain for the film some things don't change , was "the first person who had a clue" about how to bring Girl, Interrupted to life, Ryder recalled. She had admired his directorial debut, Heavy , about a lonely diner cook whose life gets a needed jolt when a spirited college dropout played by Liv Tyler comes to work as a waitress, and thought Mangold was the man for the job.

It's easy to forget that the Oscar-nominated writer-director of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line and the intense X-Men spin-offs The Wolverine and Logan was behind Girl, Interrupted , but he was the one who had the gritty vision for the film that won the day. Coincidentally, Mangold's latest film, the expansive car-racing epic Ford v Ferrari , is very much in the award season conversation right now, too.

At the time, indie darling Sarah Polley was poised to take a role she ultimately didn't , as was up-and-comer Angelina Jolie , who did. Jolie was earning major praise and would be nominated for an Emmy and win a Golden Globe for her breakout performance in the HBO biopic Gia , about the rise and horrific fall of supermodel Gia Carangi , but was not yet a movie star—all of which would change in But Ryder insisted they cast Jolie, and the role of diagnosed sociopath Lisa, Susanna's closest friend in the institution, greatly appealed to her.

Her Lisa, in particular, is endlessly charismatic, obviously intelligent and, as seen through Susanna's observant eyes, unfazed by the psychobabble they're being fed by assorted doctors.

Yet Susanna eventually realizes that Lisa, for all her world-weary wisdom, is nonetheless unstable. The actress, who acknowledged identifying with Lisa, continued, "At the end of the film there's a certain sense of them saying to Lisa, 'Nobody wants you to live, nobody likes the way you are—you'd be better off if you were sedated and tied down and shut up If you feel that you're the kind of person she is, then it's really hard, because you're struggling with, 'F--k, am I just damaging to people everywhere?

Ultimately Girl, Interrupted 's main ensemble consisted of Ryder, Jolie, Brittany Murphy , Clea DuVall , Elisabeth Moss and Jillian Armenante , with Whoopi Goldberg playing nurse Valerie, Vanessa Redgrave and Jeffrey Tambor as resident psychiatrists, and Jared Leto as Susanna's boyfriend from the outside who knows she isn't crazy and can't understand why, after awhile, she doesn't mind being there so much.

Ryder told E! News at the time that she wanted to surround herself with the very best group of actors possible, the better to elevate her own performance. Along with Jolie, Goldberg was the other must-get for Ryder. News about agreeing to be in the film, which she described as "a nice, short gig. They all are conceivably the next real crop of actors. Not to say anything disparaging about the crop that's here now," Goldberg added, "but there is a difference in these girls than you'll find in almost any of the other group You look at them, you think, 'oh, you have it.

While this was ostensibly Ryder's movie going in, however, it was all Jolie going out, and the buzz surrounding her performance didn't stop until she was accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in and informing the crowd that she was "so in love" with her brother in that moment. She married Thornton just a few months after she won her Oscar and life—though she'd only share it with Thornton for a few years—would never be the same. After the slew of headlines they made for their bloody excesses , she revamped her lifestyle to get super-fit to play Lara Croft in 's Tomb Raider , became a mom to son Maddox in and, just two years later, met Brad Pitt.

And with that, her life transformed relatively quickly, though the enigmatic quality that made her an object of such rapt fascination would remain firmly intact. At the fictional Claymore psychiatric hospital they shot the institution scenes in the empty wing of a state hospital in Harrisburg, Pa.

Ryder continued, "What she's accomplished after the film in terms of humanitarian stuff, I'm just really happy she did that. It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital. Instead, Kaysen said, many took Girl, Interrupted as some sort of stigma-defying big- t Truth about life with mental illness. During the book tour, readers would line up to tell Kaysen how her book had spoken to them.

Kaysen had published two well-regarded novels, but she was unprepared for the success that would follow Girl, Interrupted. At readings, young women would come up to her and display evidence of self-harm. Letters poured in. Girl, Interrupted was an early entry in the publishing gold rush that would be termed the memoir boom. Autobiography had long held a place in American letters, but typically those books were told by the famous or powerful.

However, in the wake of the personal-is-political progressive movements of the sixties, the life writing of unknown citizens became more marketable. We can all come up with lists of the nieces and nephews of Girl, Interrupted.