Based on a novel - excuse me, no - a memoir - by Susannah Kaysen, which is perhaps why it feels so real. 1967. A young woman has attempted suicide and thus commits herself to psychiatric hospital, where she meets a dangerous and destructive woman, who is not a nice character at all.
Winona Ryder is fabulous in the lead role - a career best performance. Angelina Jolie won the Oscar for her supporting role but isn't as impressive, somehow. With Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Whoopi Goldberg (a lovely, quiet performance), Vanessa Redgrave, Bruce Altman, Mary Kay Place.
Photographed by Jack N Green, edited by Kevin Tent, production designer Richard Hoover. Mangold wrote it with Anna Hamilton Phelan and Lisa Loomer. He's best known for Walk the Line and the new Dylan movie A Complete Unknown.
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