| rdfs:comment | - Girl, Interrupted is the second episode of Ttyl..
- "Girl, Interrupted" is the third episode of the first season of The Tomorrow People U.S. TV Series.
- American film released in 1999, starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Brittany Murphy. Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her stay in a mental institution in the late 1960's. Jolie won quite a few awards for her supporting role, among them a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
- Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling[1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music.[2] While writing the novel Far Afield, Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital.[3] She obtained her file from the hospital with the help of a lawyer.[4]
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| abstract | - Girl, Interrupted is the second episode of Ttyl..
- "Girl, Interrupted" is the third episode of the first season of The Tomorrow People U.S. TV Series.
- Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling[1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music.[2] While writing the novel Far Afield, Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital.[3] She obtained her file from the hospital with the help of a lawyer.[4] In 1999, the memoir was adapted into a film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. It was directed by James Mangold.
- American film released in 1999, starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Brittany Murphy. Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her stay in a mental institution in the late 1960's. Shortly after her high school graduation and a subsequent suicide attempt (probably), upper middle class Susanna (Ryder) is admitted to Claymoore Psychiatric Hospital, where she meets and in some cases befriends other young, female patients, most notably Lisa (Jolie), the charismatic ring leader. The group rebels against the oppression of institutionalized life, going bowling in the basement at night and breaking into the doctor's office to read their case files. Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, Lisa is a sociopath, Georgina a compulsive liar and the saccharine Polly is a disturbed burn victim. Other patients count an anorexic called Janet, a Butch Lesbian called Cynthia - homosexuality still being regarded as a mental disorder at the time - and the hostile Daisy, who's dealing with an eating disturbance of her very own and is somewhat at odds with Lisa. After some rule breaking and conflicts with the staff that leads to Lisa being taken away for electroshock treatment, she and Susanna escape one night. It ends up being a rather short trip during which Susanna becomes disenchanted with Lisa and voluntarily returns to Claymoore. Lisa is later returned too, less voluntarily and in a pretty bad state. Susanna, in the meantime, has recovered and is preparing to leave the institution, which leads to a final showdown between her and Lisa. Jolie won quite a few awards for her supporting role, among them a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
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