Title: Sporadically engaging film
Product review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest did it much, much better. Girl Interrupted drags up too many cliches and only managed intermittently to retain interest for me. It begins well, and I was genuinely fascinated by the way the film pulled us into Winona Ryder's mind, but after an hour I found myself looking at my watch and praying for it to end: None of the characters managed to keep much more than a slender hold on my sympathy; and I got the uneasy impression that we were supposed to look up to Whoopi Goldberg as some sort of strong, admirable maternal figure simply because it WAS Whoopi Goldberg, in the absence of any real depth to her character. The central character's emergence from the brink of insanity into a mature, upstanding young role model of a woman at the end of the film was rather too sudden to be believable.A nice soundtrack helped, but ultimately Girl Interrupted was far too patchy.
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