Girl, Interrupted (film)

Girl, Interrupted
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames Mangold
Screenplay by
Based onGirl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack N. Green
Edited byKevin Tent
Music byMychael Danna
Production
companies
Distributed byColumbia Pictures[1] (through Sony Pictures Releasing[2])
Release date
  • December 21, 1999 (1999-12-21) (United States)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million
Box office$48.3 million[2]

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American drama film directed by James Mangold and written by Mangold, Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Angela Bettis, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg, the film follows a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt.

Girl, Interrupted was theatrically released in the United States on December 21, 1999, and grossed $48 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews, but Ryder, Jolie and Murphy were praised; Jolie won numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

  1. ^ a b c "Girl, Interrupted (1999)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Girl, Interrupted (1999)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 20, 2010.