Girl, Interrupted

At the 1968 party after Susanna & Lisa are picked up in the microbus, 'The Doors' (qv)' "Roadhouse Blues", released in 1970, is playing.

Susanna's hair when Valerie throws her into the bathtub, appears almost combed back off of her face, then forward seconds later.

The amount of water on her face also changes.

When Susanna is first being driven by taxi to the asylum, we see an all blue mailbox through the window.

In 1968, mailboxes were red on top, blue on bottom.

They weren't painted all blue until the '70s.

When Susanna is meeting with the psychiatrist in the beginning of the movie, the same black car drives by twice.

The same cars are parked in the same places when she enters the mental institution, and leaves a year later.

"The End of the World" by 'Skeeter Davis' (qv) is on Daisy's record player, but the record itself is a Columbia 45 from the early-to-mid-'50s (red label, gold print).

This song was first released on an RCA 45 from 1963, with a black label.

The story shows the draft lottery taking place before 'Martin Luther King' (qv) Jr.

is assassinated.

King was assassinated in 1968, and the first draft lottery was in December, 1969.

Susanna walks past a 'Robert F.

Kennedy' (qv) campaign yard sign as she leaves her house to go to the mental hospital.

It is fall 1967.

Kennedy didn't announce his intention to run for president until March 1968.

Susanna's signature changes when she is admitted to the hospital.

The "S" and the last "a" in "Susanna" are clearly different after she has asked if her parents should sign the form.

When Lisa goes to take Daisy's money after they have found her hanged, Daisy's eyes move several times.

When Lisa is at the counter ordering her sundae, and she goes to lick the cherry, her tongue is already red from previous takes.

When Susanna is talking to an employee at her high school about her plans for college and her career, she says she's not going to burn her bra, drop acid, or march on Washington.

The bra burning story was published in 1968, not 1967 when Susanna was in high school.

In the scene where Toby visits Susanna at Claymoore, Valerie escorts him to the TV room.

Toby and Susanna talk briefly, with Janet observing them nearby in the background, on the left.

When both Toby and Susanna exit the room, Janet suddenly appears on the right side.

Lisa asks Daisy if there is a tub, Daisy replies no.

When Daisy Kills herself she is clearly hanging in front of a tub.

As Daisy has been portrayed as a notoriously difficult and selfish girl, she could have just been saying she didn't have a tub so that Lisa wouldn't try to use it.

Susanna often writes quotes from other characters in her journal.

In one scene we see her write the quote "If you lived here you'd be home by now", but this quote is not said by Daisy until later in the movie.

The girls in the hospital are shown watching _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv) during the daytime.

In the sixties the "Wizard of Oz" was only broadcast once a year around Easter and only during the evening.

Since this movie takes place before the availability of the VCR there's no way they could have been watching this movie during the day, but, since recording devices of the type did exist at that time, and since the original work was not a linear story, it could be that they could simply have it in a different format.

In the taxi when Susanna first goes to Claymoore, she lights a cigarette.

Then she jumps into a flashback.

When the flashback is over, she lights a cigarette again.

There is no sign of the cigarette before the flashback.

Given how long the real-time might have taken during the flashback, it's entirely likely that she finished the first, got rid of it, and lit a second.

Daisy's corpse is taken away in a 1970 Cadillac ambulance.

This film, and the book it's taken from, actually covers an 18-month period, and cars are often designated by the year after they come out.

Polly supposedly doused herself in gasoline to get rid of the rash that her new puppy had given her.

The probability that she wouldn't be allergic to the cat at the end is highly unlikely.

Most people with dog allergies are even more allergic to cats.

The book indicates that Polly setting herself on fire was a suicide attempt; the dog story coming from a pathological liar.

At the sanitarium, Daisy always wants laxatives and Colace.

She clearly states that she doesn't take Valium and hides those in her teddy bear.

When Susanna and Lisa show up at her new apartment, the first thing she asks is, "Do you have Valium?" This is never explained, even after Lisa says, "I thought you didn't do Valium.

" Daisy may have simply been stating a request, or maybe lying about the taking of Valium, or maybe set it up as an inside joke.

The slits on Daisy's wrist do not appear until Lisa pulls up her robe sleeve.

When she asks for the Valium and her wrist is exposed, there are no cuts at all.

When Susanna is walking through her house during the party, there are extras there.

In the background, you can hear, "Look, there's 'Winona Ryder' (qv)".

When Lisa is ordering a sundae at the ice cream counter, she asks for "sprinkles", which are known as "jimmies" in the Boston area.

The movie made me realise 2 important things. 1) Everybody tries to portray an image of themselves, but on the inside, the portrayal is just a mirror of their hidden wounds accumulated over time.

"Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash?

I watched this movie for the first time when i was about 16, now i am 20 and it is still one of my favorite movies, i think it is definitely a must see film not just because the story is good but the acting is brilliant, till this day i haven't seen in any other movie such a good cast like in this one,everyone just right for their part. Angelina Jolie got her first Oscar in this film and it was well deserved.

"Girl, Interrupted" is a 1999 film based off of Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name. It follows the protagonist, played by Winona Ryder, as she is institutionalized in Claymoore (McLean Hospital in real life).

Girl Interrupted (1999): Dir: James Mangold / Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Brittany Murphy, Clea DuVall: Misguided film about intrusion of the mind and those disturbances that hinder our daily functions. Winona Ryder is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and spends two years in an institution.

Girl, interrupted is a wonderful, feisty account of 18 year old Susanna's eighteen month long stay at a mental hospital. Filled with vigour and quirky energy, the movie is a must watch.

One of my top favourite movies. Highly recommend!!

When I watched the movie I figured since the film was about someone's true account in a mental hospital in the 1960's it's going to be a tough movie to endure seeing how horrible these girls must have been treated. I was proven very wrong.

A thought provoking movie, that stays with you days 2 come. A must watch!