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| Girl, Interrupted |
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  (3/10)
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Runtime: 127 |
| Public Rating: 8.24 (50 votes) |
Director: James Mangold |
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| Genre: Drama |
Year: 1999 |
| Writer(s): James Mangold |
| Reviewed by: Matthew Coats |
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Hot, psycho chicks, in somewhat skimpy hospital gowns, what could be better? Well, I can think of a few things better than "Girl, Interrupted"'s take on the subject. I think a root canal from a dentist with Downs Syndrome would be a lot better.
Simply put, this movie was awful. Sure Angelina Jolie is hot, and Winnona Ryder can be too. But this movie doesn't care. The only reason I would see a chick flick is for the chicks. I hated "Runaway Bride," but I watched becaus I love Julia Roberts. But at least "Runaway Bride" didn't try to offend my intellegence. "Girl Interrupted" should of just been called "Digestion Interrupted" because this movie made me vomit gallons.
There's only one scene in this "thing" worth mentioning. In one scene Wynonna Ryder is soaking in a bathtub. It might have been erotc, had Whoopi Goldberg's monsterous figure not been hovering above her. Wynonna starts cursing Whooppi out, calling her all kinds of racial slurs, etc. I'm not a racist, but I hate Whoopi. Whoever did a movie with a big fake dinosaur doesn't desreve respect. If they wanted a large black woman to play that role, I think this woman I found on the cover of a Weekly World News would have been better. "World's Fattest Woman."
This movie was based on a novel, because Holllywood is getting too unoriginal nowadays. Every movie made now is based on a book nobody's heard of, or a TV series. According to a random reviewer at imdb, the book is: "Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s." Now, I've been to mental hospitals (not as a patient!!!) and "Girl, Interrupted" is far from an accurate reflection of mental helath facilities. I've never seen a hot chick in a psyche ward. And usually there's a whole lot of elderly people that need diapers. ut, the farthest from the truth is THEY DON'T HIRE WHOOPI GOLDBERG AS ORDERLIES!!
I gave it a 2, only because I liked some of the girls. If I watched this movie muted, and only looked at the screen for a couple seconds, every five minutes or so, it would have been okay. But the dialogue was the most inane crap I'd ever heard. The acting was atrocious, and with the exceotion of Whoopi Goldberg, this people know how to act! And just for once I would like to see a movie that takes place in the '60s that DOESN'T pointlessly mention Vietnam. A movie could be about one thing, but if it takes place in the '60s using the same storyline, they have to waste half an hour about how "tragic" Vietnam was, when it has NOTHING to do with the story! If you want to discuss Vietnam, do that in another movie! Don't clog up our mental hospital chick movies with pointless poignance abotu Vietnam!
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