Angelina Jolie Movie Where She Loses Her Baby and Is a Cop

1999 picture past James Mangold

Daughter, Interrupted
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Mangold
Screenplay past	James Mangold Lisa Loomer Anna Hamilton Phelan
Based on	Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Produced past	Douglas Wick Cathy Konrad
Starring	Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Clea DuVall Brittany Tater Elisabeth Moss Jared Leto Jeffrey Tambor Vanessa Redgrave Whoopi Goldberg
Cinematography	Jack N. Green
Edited by	Kevin Tent
Music by	Mychael Danna
Product companies	Columbia Pictures[i] Ruby-red Wagon Amusement[1]
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures[1] (through Sony Pictures Releasing[2])
Release date	December 21, 1999 (1999-12-21)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	Us
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$48.3 million[2]

Daughter, Interrupted is a 1999 American psychological drama picture directed by James Mangold and starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Irish potato, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Moss, Angela Bettis, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jared Leto. Based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same proper name, the film follows a young adult female who, afterward a suicide endeavour, spends 18 months at a psychiatric hospital between 1967 and 1968.

Girl, Interrupted began as a limited release on December 21, 1999, with a wide expansion on January 14, 2000. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, though the performances of Ryder and Jolie received widespread critical acclaim. Jolie won the University Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Gilt Globe Accolade for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Plot [edit]

In 1967 New England, aimless 18-year-sometime Susanna Kaysen has a nervous breakdown and overdoses on aspirin and alcohol, after which confronting her wishes she is checked into Claymoore, a local psychiatric hospital. Susanna had previously had an affair with Professor Gilcrest, an English language teacher, as well as a coincidental human relationship with a swain, Toby. In the psychiatric ward, Susanna befriends Polly Clark, a childlike schizophrenic; Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar; Daisy Randone, who self-harms and has obsessive–compulsive disorder, as well as being implied to be bulimic;^[3] and Janet, a sardonic woman with anorexia. Susanna is specially drawn to the sociopath Lisa Rowe, who is rebellious but charismatic and encourages Susanna to end taking her medication and resist therapy.

Lisa helps the girls sneak around at dark in the hospital'south underground tunnels and continuously provokes them and the staff, including the stern head nurse, Valerie. Through regular therapy sessions with Dr. Melvin Potts, Susanna comes to acquire she has borderline personality disorder, a fact Dr. Potts initially conceals from her. On a rare supervised grouping outing celebrating Daisy's impending release, the women visit an ice cream parlor in town. There, Susanna is confronted past Barbara Gilcrest, the married woman of Professor Gilcrest, and their daughter, Bonnie. Barbara publicly chastises Susanna for sleeping with her husband; coming to Susanna'southward defense, Lisa insultingly berates Barbara and the other girls mock her and Bonnie earlier they both go out, humiliated. This endears Susanna to Lisa even more, though Valerie reprimands Lisa.

One day, Toby, who has been drafted to serve in the Vietnam War, visits Susanna, begging her to run away with him to Canada. Susanna tells him she has become friends with the other girls and would like to leave someday but non with him. That nighttime, Polly has a breakdown and is placed in isolation. Susanna and Lisa drug the night watch nurse with a allaying and attempt to comfort Polly by singing to her. Susanna too makes out with John, one of the hospital orderlies who has a shell on her. When Valerie finds the group sleeping in the hallway in the morn, she punishes the ii women, particularly Lisa, who is forced to endure electroshock therapy followed by solitary confinement.

Later that night, Lisa manages to suspension out of solitude and convinces Susanna to escape with her. The women hitchhike to Daisy's newly-rented apartment, supplied by her adoring male parent, and bribe her with valium to spend the night. Daisy, insistent she has been cured of her affliction, is confronted by Lisa when Lisa discovers Daisy has been cutting herself. Lisa taunts and mocks Daisy, accusing her of enjoying the incestuous sexual abuse she has long suffered from her begetter. The adjacent morn, Susanna finds Daisy dead in her bathroom, having slashed her wrists and hanged herself most likely because of what Lisa had told her the previous evening. Susanna is appalled when Lisa searches Daisy's room and trunk for cash. Realizing she does non desire to become like Lisa, Susanna phones for an ambulance and returns to Claymoore while Lisa flees to Florida.

Back at the hospital, Susanna occupies herself with painting and writing, and co-operates with her therapy, including regular sessions with the hospital's head psychologist, Dr. Sonia Wick. Before Susanna is released, Lisa is apprehended and returned to Claymoore. She steals Susanna'south diary one dark and reads information technology for the amusement of the patients in the tunnels, turning them against Susanna. Later on reading an entry in which Susanna feels sympathy for Lisa being a cold, dark person, Lisa attacks Susanna and chases her through the tunnels. Cornered, Susanna confronts Lisa, accusing her of being dead inside, emotionally dependent on Claymoore, and afraid of the world. This confrontation profoundly affects Lisa, who breaks down and contemplates suicide, though the others manage to dissuade her from doing so. Before Susanna is released the next day, she goes to visit Lisa, who is restrained to a bed. The two reconcile, and Lisa insists she is not actually heartless.

Cast [edit]

• Winona Ryder as Susanna Kaysen, the protagonist. She was eighteen years erstwhile when diagnosed with deadline personality disorder.
• Angelina Jolie equally Lisa Rowe, diagnosed as a sociopath. Charismatic, manipulative, rebellious and abusive, she has been in the institution since she was twelve, and has escaped several times over her eight years at that place, only is e'er defenseless and brought back eventually. She is looked up to past the other patients and forms a shut bond with Susanna.
• Clea DuVall as Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar. She is Susanna's seventeen-year-old roommate and her closest friend next to Lisa in the institution. Susanna confides in her about life and Georgina informs Susanna virtually the other girls there.
• Brittany Murphy equally Daisy Randone, a sexually abused eighteen-year-quondam girl with OCD who cuts herself and is addicted to laxatives. She keeps the carcasses of the cooked chicken that her father brings her in her room.
• Elisabeth Moss every bit Polly "Torch" Clark, a burn victim who suffers from schizophrenia. She is sixteen years sometime and is very childlike and easily upset. Georgina informs Susanna that Polly was admitted to Claymoore afterward her parents told her that she would have to give up her puppy because of her allergies to it, and in response she poured gasoline on the affected area and gear up it alight, leaving her face up horribly scarred. It is afterwards revealed in Polly's file that she was the victim of a house burn down.
• Angela Bettis equally Janet Webber, an anorexic. Like Lisa, she is abrasive and seemingly aristocratic, but is besides easily irritated or upset. She is 20 years old.
• Jillian Armenante as Cynthia Crowley. She claims that she is a sociopath like Lisa, but Lisa denies the claim and states that she is a "dyke". She is twenty-two and is easily amused.
• Travis Fine equally John, an orderly who is smitten with Susanna. He is later sent to work at the men's ward after he and Susanna kiss and fall comatose together.
• Kurtwood Smith as Dr. Crumble, a colleague of Susanna'south male parent and retired therapist, who sees Susanna as a patient equally a favor to her father, and sends her to Claymoore.
• Jeffrey Tambor as Dr. Melvin Potts
• Joanna Kerns as Annette Kaysen, Susanna's female parent.
• Ray Baker every bit Carl Kaysen, Susanna's father.
• Jared Leto as Tobias "Toby" Jacobs, Susanna'southward ex-boyfriend who plans to escape to Canada subsequently beingness drafted into the military.
• Vanessa Redgrave as Dr. Sonia Wick, the caput psychologist of the infirmary.
• Whoopi Goldberg equally Valerie Owens, R.N., the stern just caring head nurse who oversees the hospital.
• Bruce Altman as Professor Gilcrest, a higher professor with whom Susanna had an affair.
• Mary Kay Identify as Barbara Gilcrest, Professor Gilcrest's married woman.
• KaDee Strickland as Bonnie Gilcrest, Professor Gilcrest'due south daughter.
• Robin Reck as Theresa McCullian.
• Misha Collins as Tony
• Drucie McDaniel as M.Thousand.

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

In June 1993, Columbia Pictures fought off a number of other studios to buy the flick rights to Kaysen's memoir.^[4] Winona Ryder, who had also attempted to buy the flick rights, ultimately partnered with producer Douglas Wick to develop the projection every bit a star vehicle. The film was and so stuck in development hell for five years, with three dissimilar scripts written but none satisfying Ryder and Wick, their reasoning being that Kaysen'south book struggled to interpret to film. Ryder approached James Mangold to directly, after seeing his film debut Heavy.^[five] Ryder, Wick and Mangold settled on a final shooting script in mid-1998, with Columbia pushing dorsum production on the film until early 1999 in order for Ryder to shoot their horror motion-picture show Lost Souls.^{[half dozen]}

Casting [edit]

Because of the volume of potent female characters in the motion-picture show, a number of young actresses sought parts in it. Reese Witherspoon, Christina Ricci, Katie Holmes, Gretchen Mol, Kate Hudson, Alicia Witt, Sarah Polley, and Rose McGowan all auditioned for unspecified roles. "It's the only decent thing out there that doesn't involve taking your clothes off," McGowan said in 1998.^[7] Mangold as well met with Courtney Honey to discuss the role of Lisa as well as Alanis Morissette for a role.^[viii] Parker Posey turned down a role,^[9] while Leelee Sobieski signed on to play Daisy but dropped out weeks before filming began after receiving an offer to star in Joan of Arc.^{[10] [eleven]}

Filming [edit]

Filming took place primarily in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, as well as in Harrisburg Country Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in early on 1999.^[12] Mechanicsburg was chosen for its one-time-fashioned advent and its old-style drugstore just titled "Drugs", all of which gave the moving-picture show its fourth dimension-dated appearance. A scene in the trailer shows a van traveling towards downtown Harrisburg over the State Street Bridge, where the Capitol building is clearly visible.^[13] Scenes later deleted were also filmed at Reading's Public Museum.

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

Girl, Interrupted received mixed reviews from critics. As of 2020, the film holds a rating of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 114 reviews. The site's consensus states: "Angelina Jolie gives an intense performance, merely overall Girl, Interrupted suffers from thin, predictable plotting that fails to capture the power of its source fabric."^[14] The film also has a rating of 51 on Metacritic based 32 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[15] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie an boilerplate grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.^[xvi]

Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote: "Girl, Interrupted is a small, intense period slice with a hardheaded tough-love attitude toward lazy, self-indulgent footling girls flirting with madness: You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours."^[17] Tom Coates from the BBC wrote: "Girl, Interrupted is a decent adaptation of [Kaysen's] memoir of this period, neatened up and polished for an audience more familiar with gloss than grit."^[18] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times was critical of the screenplay accommodation from the source novel, writing that information technology has "a difficult time resisting manufacturing obvious, standard-result drama of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest knockoff variety," though he conceded that the performances of Ryder and Jolie assistance the motion picture "stay every bit honest as it manages to sporadically be...Both women have continued strongly to their parts, and they ensure their characters' reality even if the dramas they are involved with don't always rise to that standard."^[19]

Paul Tatara of CNN panned the film'due south screenplay for containing little "cocky-reflection in the dialogue," calculation that "Each girl is simply issued a quirk that she drags effectually like a ball and chain." Tatara summarized: "The good news is that author-director James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted is one of the best films of the twelvemonth. The bad news is that you have to be a hyper-sensitive 17-year-old girl to think so."^[xx] Roger Ebert was critical of the film's failure to focus on the themes information technology presents, writing: "The film is mostly about grapheme and beliefs and although there are individual scenes of powerful acting, there doesn't seem to be a destination. That's why the determination is then unsatisfying: The story, having failed to provide itself with character conflicts that can be resolved with drama, turns to melodrama instead."^[21]

Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Time Out Film Guide praised Jolie's performance, but was critical of Ryder'southward: "Does information technology affair that every time Jolie's offscreen the moving-picture show wilts a little? Ryder should be perfect as the bright spark; her lines are abrupt as a knife. There's a gap, however, between what we hear and what we see. Ryder's likewise broad-eyed and cutesy, and when we see her with nurse Valerie (Goldberg), we know it's only a thing of fourth dimension before they start hugging."^[22] The San Francisco Chronicle 's Peter Stack was unimpressed past the picture, deeming it "a muddled production that misses the jarring tone of the autobiographical book by Susanna Kaysen on which information technology is based. The film is entertaining, but not very powerful."^[23] Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News gave the pic a mixed review, awarding it two out of four stars, writing that "[Ryder] is often simply a crumpled, listless figure on a bed, which, while true to the nature of depression, is not, cinematically speaking, the most arresting image," and likening the performances of Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave every bit "bordering on cameos."^[24]

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The author, Susanna Kaysen, was amid the detractors of the film, accusing Mangold of adding "melodramatic drivel" to the story past inventing plot points that were non in the book (such equally Lisa and Susanna running away together).^[25]

Accolades [edit]

Institution	Year	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref(s)
Academy Awards	2000	All-time Supporting Actress	Angelina Jolie	Won	[26]
Critics' Choice Awards	2000	All-time Supporting Actress		Won	[27]
Golden Globe Awards	2000	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Movie		Won	[28]
Screen Actors Order Awards	2000	Outstanding Functioning by a Female Actor in a Supporting Part		Won	[29]
Teen Pick Awards	2000	Selection Drama Movie Actress of the Year		Nominated
		Choice Picture Hissy Fit of the Year		Nominated	[30]
		Selection Drama Movie of the Year	Girl, Interrupted	Nominated

Soundtrack [edit]

The film's official soundtrack was released on Jan eighteen, 2000.^[31]

No.	Title	Artist	Length
ane.	"Downtown"	Petula Clark	3:05
2.	"It's All Over Now, Infant Blue"	Them	3:50
three.	"Got a Feelin'"	The Mamas and the Papas	2:44
4.	"Time Has Come Today"	The Chambers Brothers	2:37
5.	"Comin' Back to Me"	Jefferson Airplane	v:14
6.	"Angel of the Forenoon"	Merrilee Blitz	iii:nineteen
7.	"Right Time"	Aretha Franklin	iv:45
eight.	"How to Fight Loneliness"	Wilco	3:52
ix.	"Weight"	The Band	4:23
10.	"The Terminate of the World"	Skeeter Davis	two:33

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Sources [edit]

• Rondinone, Tony (2019). Nightmare Factories: The Aviary in the American Imagination. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN978-1-421-43267-0.

External links [edit]

• Daughter, Interrupted at IMDb
• Girl, Interrupted at AllMovie
• Daughter, Interrupted at the TCM Movie Database
• Girl, Interrupted at Rotten Tomatoes

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