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Plot. In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. She denies that it was a suicide attempt to a psychiatrist, who suggests she take time to regroup in McLean, a private mental hospital.
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay by Mangold, Lisa Loomer, and Anna Hamilton Phelan, and based on the 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, ...
Jan 1, 2022 · Yes, ‘Girl, Interrupted’ is based on a true story. It is based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir of the same name. It essays the journey of a young woman who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.
Sep 2, 2022 · Girl, Interrupted is based on the true story of Susanna Kaysen at McLean Hospital, as chronicled in her memoir with the same name. Kaysen spent two years at the mental health institution in the late 1960s and memorialized her experiences in her 1993 book.
May 22, 2023 · She played the character of Susanna Kaysen and Angelina Jolie played opposite as Lisa, a fictionalized version of a woman Kaysen knew at McLean’s, for which she won the Oscar for best...
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Based on the autobiographical bestseller about Susanna Kaysen’s two year incarceration as a teen in a mental hospital, Girl, Interrupted also had much to say to Ryder about her own brief mental breakdown and hospitalization at the age of nineteen.
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Mar 20, 2023 · Why was Susanna Kaysen really hospitalised? Her memoir Girl, Interrupted turns 30 this year. It investigates whether she was ‘mad’, or medicalised for a ‘chaotic’ life that defied gender ...
