Girl, Interrupted (film)
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay by Mangold, Lisa Loomer, and Anna Hamilton Phelan, and based on the 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Angela Bettis, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg, the film follows a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt.
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| Directed by | James Mangold |
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| Based on | Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen |
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| Cinematography | Jack N. Green |
| Edited by | Kevin Tent |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing) |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $48.3 million |
Girl, Interrupted was theatrically released in the United States on December 21, 1999. The film received mixed reviews from critics upon release; however, Ryder and Jolie earned widespread acclaim for their performances. It grossed $48 million worldwide, thus emerging as a commercial success.
Girl, Interrupted earned Jolie numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. The film has been reappraised in the years since its release.