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FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 15 |  | Cast Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Whoopi Goldberg |  | Directors James Mangold |  | Screenwriters James Mangold Lisa Loomer Anna Hamilton Phelan |  | Running Time 127 minutes |
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Girl, Interrupted (15) Plot Susanna (Ryder), a 60's sensitive type who commits herself to a mental institution after she takes a bottle of aspirin to cure a headache. We are then introduced to the inmates who will quickly form her clique: Daisy (Murphy), an anorexic daddy's girl; Polly, whose horrifically scarred face masks her innate sensitivity; and Lisa (Jolie), a free-spirited sociopath who has turned asylum escapes into an artform. Verdict If the film has drawbacks, it is that it occasionally stretches belief and it resolves itself too neatly, betraying the rawness that has gone before. Yet ultimately it gets by on the strength of its double-handed performance whammy.
 Reviewer: Ian Freer Read The Full Empire Review » Click for the full Empire review and post your own review and rating.
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