Girl, Interrupted Page #7

Synopsis: Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and unpredictable Lisa.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): James Mangold
Production: Sony Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
R
Year:
1999
127 min
Website
13,919 Views


They're just begging to be pressed.

You know?|They're just begging to be pressed.

And it makes me wonder.

You know, it really|makes me f***ing wonder...

why doesn't anybody ever press mine?

Why am I so neglected?|Why doesn't anybody...

reach in, rip out the truth|and tell me...

that I'm a f***ing whore|and that my parents wish I were dead?

Because you're dead already, Lisa!

No one cares if you die, Lisa...

because you're dead already.

Your heart is cold!

That's why you keep coming back here.

You're not free.

You need this place. You need it|to feel alive. It's pathetic.

God.

I've wasted a year of my life.

And maybe everyone out there|is a liar.

And maybe the whole world...

is stupid and ignorant.

But I'd rather be in it.

I'd rather be f***ing in it...

than down here with you.

Don't.

Please don't.

Oh, God.

Did you get it?

I had to trade with a transvestite|in the men's ward.

Thanks.

I'm not really dead.

I know.

I'm gonna miss you, Suzie Q.

No, you're not.

You're gonna get out of here,|and you're gonna come and see me.

Yeah.

You know all that stuff|I write in my journal...

I don't know what I'm saying.

They're just thoughts.

Maybe I'm a liar.

Maybe not.

See you.

You think if I left Ruby here,|you'd take care of her for me?

Let me play with her|when I come for my therapy?

- Yeah?|- Yeah.

Thank you.

Bye, Ruby.

Bye.

- Yeah.|- Bye, Susanna.

Remember me|when you shave your legs.

Declared healthy...

and sent back into the world.

"My fi"n"al diagnosis... "

a recovered borderline.

I still don't know.

Was I ever crazy?

Maybe.

Or maybe life is.

I remember you.

Where are you going?

All right.

Crazy isn't being broken...

or swallowing a dark secret.

It's you or me...

amplified.

and enjoyed it.

you could be a child forever.

They were not perfect...

but they were my friends.

And by the '70s...

most of them were out...

living lives.

Some I've seen...

some never again.

But there isn't a day|"my heart doesn't fi"n"d them. "

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James Mangold

James Mangold is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the films Cop Land, Girl, Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, and Knight and Day. more…

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