Girl, Interrupted

Director: James Mangold

1999 / 127min / 35mm

Based on a 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen, Mangold’s powerhouse picture—featuring a star-making turn for Angelina Jolie—sets its scene at a New England psychiatric hospital c. 1967 where Winona Ryder (in the Kaysen role) lands after suffering a nervous breakdown. Among the committed at Claymoore are a hall-of-fame lineup of ’90s female acting talent, including sociopathic agitator Jolie, self-harmer Brittany Murphy, and schizophrenic burn victim Elisabeth Moss. “A small, intense period piece with a hardheaded tough-love attitude.”—The New York Times