Girl Interrupted was released 25 years ago this December

I thought all of them were good. (Brittney, Winona, Angelina)

Angelina was a really gutsy take no prisoners performance. The Oscar was well deserved.

I thought it was contrived that Angelina would break down about mean things Winona wrote about her in her diary.

That scene where Jolie talks Murphy into suicide is chilling. Jolie just oozes charisma in it.

One of the best scenes was when Brittany Murphy is walking up the stairs, and Angelina goes into that monolog, about how Daisy's Dad fucks her. The other great scene was when Winona was dropped into the bathtub by Whoopi Goldberg and starts going off.

So many big names in this movie, my god. And the wonderful Jillian Armenante!

Haven't seen it since childhood, will have to watch it again soon.

Brilliant film. The whole cast was great.

25 years? Well I certainly hope she's resumed by now.

I thought it was overrated particularly Angie's performance.

I watched it several times since and realize Brittany Murphy stole the film away from the two leads.

That fucking sales girl interrupted my shoplifting at Saks. Did she deserve an award too?!?!?! Fuck Hollywood.

Poor Noni just couldn't catch a break in the late 90s: first that whore Goop stole her Shakespeare in Love role and then Angelina stole all her thunder for Girl Interrupted, one of Winona's passion projects.

Real Susanna Kaysen also disliked that so much of the focus was put on Angelina's character in the script, even though she praised her performance.

aka I Never Promised You I'd Pay You.

I prefer 1963a The Caretakers with Polly Bergen, Van Williams, Robert Stack, Robert Vaughn, Barbara Barrie

Wasn’t a huge fan of the film, but Ryder & Murphy gave far better performances than Jolie, who was hammy and overacting as she chewed the scenery.

I can still smell the chicken.

I preferred Helen Lawson in "Cunt, Interrupted". She wanted to do a nude sex scene but everyone else refused.

The Angela Bettis version of Carrie is far superior than any of the others, including the original.

I love you r9

Such a lousy movie.

Winona cannot act. Jolie played herself. Murphy was fine but it wasn't acting and she's dead.

The 1999 Supporting Actress Oscar category was stacked with excellent actresses that year, and of course the least talented of them, Angelina Jolie, won. I would have voted for Chloe Sevigny in Boys Don’t Cry.

The book is far better than the film. I remember Susanna Kaysen describing Angelina’s performance as “histrionic.”

surprised this hasn't been adapted into a musical yet.

r20 ... starring Beanie!

Angie’s bad wig.

With Vanessa Redgrave adding some class.

two things I remember from watching this on HBO as a kid- Winona cutting her palm on some railing, and rotisserie chickens under someone's bed. That's it.

My favorite scene was when the professor's wife (Mary Kay Place) confronts Winona at the ice cream parlor then gets into an altercation with Jolie.

Peppermint dick!

Peppermint clit!

Angelina has a ridiculous wig

[quote] surprised this hasn't been adapted into a musical yet.

There better not be an intermission. There's only so many interruptions a girl will take.

Jolie was pure ham in this

Some of this was filmed on the grounds of the Harrisburg State Hospital (and some in Harrisburg proper), which had been emptied out of mental patients since Reagan. Some of the old-style metal restraints were still in the basements of the buildings.

The Dept. of Public Welfare has a number of offices in buildings on the hospital grounds, and my father, who got a state job there after retiring, was wandering the expansive grounds at lunchtime and got to see them filming. And he got to see Whoopi Goldberg. He was thrilled to death.

He retired from that job at 72 and he's 88 now. I'm so glad he got to have that experience.

And I liked the movie.

[quote]surprised this hasn't been adapted into a musical yet.

Imagine all the reprises of "Downtown".

Is this the movie where the asylum has a bowling alley in the basement? What a luxury.

They were "Bowling for Droperidol"

R25 yes that ice cream shop scene. I think it has this exchange:

Mary Kay: Was I speaking to you?

Angelina: You're spitting on me.

Oh it's this.

Lisa: Lady, back off!

Mrs. Gilcrest: Was I talking to you?

Lisa: No, you were spitting on me.

They finally remade The Bell Jar...

[quote]Some of this was filmed on the grounds of the Harrisburg State Hospital (and some in Harrisburg proper), which had been emptied out of mental patients since Reagan.

That's a myth about Reagan/conservatives.

It was the liberals (i.e. anti-authority) who got the hospitals closed down and spearheaded the entire campaign.

Just like nowadays they want to shut down the zoos/prisons and have everyone/everything roaming free.

How could this film's budget be $40 million? It's relatively small-scale material so the actor's must have charged a ton.

Jolie probably could’ve won this year for reading the phone book. A good, but not great performance. But she was definitely the it girl of this late 90s period, winning a globe and receiving two Emmy nominations also. People couldn’t stop talking about her. Im guessing Collette or Sevigny came in a distant second.

Jolie had 'Hackers' under her belt, that was it. It's actually a guilty pleasure movie for me, but her performance had shown tremendous promise, and actual range. Love Winona, but she played versions of this girl at various stages, it wasn't different enough and given she had a minor diagnosis to work with, which she paralleled in life in too many ways, wasn't exactly exciting and different, from her.

I remember my mother being angry about the depiction of being in an institution, she worked in group-homes for many years, and one well known institution, and the movies depiction was Disneyfied and glamorized, can't say she was wrong, but it was a movie. Rooms of patients in helmets banging their heads against the wall wouldn't have played.

A young Elisabeth Moss had a major role in this movie, too.

I disliked that movie. Seeing it once was more than enough for me.

Just scene this cringe scene is enough for me

(^.^) Just seeing . . .