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Starring: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Vanessa
Redgrave, Jeffrey Tambor, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared
Leto, Columbia, Directed by James Mangold. 6.6.10
Rated R [2:07]
Based on the true-life memoir of Suzanna Kuysen,
Girl Interrupted desperately wants to be a
profound look into the life of a young woman who is
institutionalized for a year. Instead, it's a
snoozefest, with barely any plot and characters so
broadly painted that one hardly cares for their
predicament. Winona Ryder is wildly inconsistent as
Kuysen, who enters the Claymoore mental hospital
for reasons that are vague at best. There, she
encounters the usual mental ward stereotypes,
including a sociopath played by Angelina Jolie in
an uncontrolled, over-the-top performance that's
more concerned with nabbing an Oscar nomination
than creating a believable character. Once we're in
the hospital, little happens for nearly two hours,
until the film inexplicably turns into a horror
movie for most of its last fifteen minutes and
finally veers into Lifetime Network tears and
reconciliation. Director James (Copland) Mangold
and Ryder clearly want to say something with this
material, but don't know what; they seem to think
the situation itself is the message. But that's not
enough to interrupt your day for two hours of
"crazed" looks, hysterically showy rants, and
superficial melodrama - which is all this Girl
amounts to.
Source: Don Kaye, drdrew.com/article.asp?id=286
 or
www.kids-in-mind.com/g/girlinterrupted99.htm
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