Aside from the common setting of a mental hospital, both stories play with the concept of the unreliable narrator, both set up character dynamics based on manipulation and defiance of authority, and both end on a decidedly bittersweet note. Given its subject matter and its status as an adaptation of a popular novel, it's very tempting to simply label Girl, Interrupted as the female One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. However, while her work on Girl, Interrupted is not her finest performance overall - that would be A Mighty Heart - it is the jewel in the crown of this cinematic masterpiece. There are male examples of this too (like Cuba Gooding Jr., for instance), but given the many twists and turns of Angelina Jolie's career, you may well put her in the same category. Julia Roberts has never topped Erin Brockovich, Halle Berry quickly faded after Monster's Ball, and both Tatum O'Neill and Shirley Temple saw a decline in the fortunes after their respective wins. It seems to be particularly the case with female Oscar winners that their careers begin to buckle under this newfound pressure. But if someone is rewarded for giving a particular performance or doing something especially well, it creates the pressure to always be that good (or always do that one thing) from thereon in. That level of cinematic immortality (or in some cases infamy) is the level of success for which most actors and filmmakers would kill, even with the need to take the Academy's decisions both past and present with a pinch of salt. Larry Jameson I.Doctor (uncredited)Įric Mitchell II.In my review of The Departed, I spoke about how winning an Oscar can often tie either a film or a person associated with it eternally to that achievement. Joe Gerrety.CopĪnne Lewis.Dance Therapistĭonny Martino, Jr.Naked Man Rebecca Derrick.LillianĪnne Connors.Nurse Linda Gilvear.Miss PaisleyĪllen Strange.Principal Crumbleĭavid Scott Taylor.Monty Hoover (Cabby) Kadee Strickland.Bonnie GilcrestĬhristian Monroe.Ronny Jillian Armente.Cynthia Crowleyĭrucie McDaniel.Martian's Girlfriend aka M.G.Īlison Claire.GretaĬhristina Myers.Margie Jared Leto.Tobias JacobsĮlisabeth Moss.Polly "Torch" Clark Whoopi Goldberg.Valerie Owens RNīrittany Murphy.Daisy Randone Winona Ryder.Susanna KaysenĪngelina Jolie.Lisa RoweĬlea DuVall.Georgina Tuskin HABOUSH (SOUND RE-RECORDING MIXER)ĮLIZABETH KENTON (SUPERVISING ADR EDITOR) HOWELL GIBBENS (SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR) HARRY CONRAD CHITWOOD (CONSTRUCTION COORDINATOR) JACKSON I (PROSTHETIC MAKEUP APPLICATION) GIRL, INTERRUPTED also stars Jared Leto, Brittany Murphy and Clea Duvall, as well as Oscar® winners Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave. Based on the best-selling book of the same name and directed by celebrated Cop Land director James Mangold, the film features tour de force performances by today's most critically acclaimed young actors, including Ryder and Jolie. Susanna's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she spends nearly a year on the ward. Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, GIRL, INTERRUPTED is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (two-time Oscar® nominee Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women, where she must choose between the world of people who belong on the inside-like the seductive and dangerous Lisa (Angelina Jolie, Golden Globe winner for Gia and George Wallace)-or the often difficult world of reality on the outside. Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
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