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  2. 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. The film recounts her experiences there after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Jan 6, 2024 · To be fair, the film is Susanna's story: it's based on the book of the same name written by Susanna Kaysen about her real-life experiences, so it makes sense that Susanna is more fleshed out...

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  6. Dec 24, 2019 · Girl, Interrupted is a tale of Susanna Kaysen’s misdiagnosis (“You need a rest,” she’s told, before being shuttled to a mental hospital) and the cast of freaks she meets in her ward. The story passed through the hands of two screenwriters – Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan – before director James Mangold rewrote it.

  7. May 23, 2023 · At the Massachusetts psychiatric hospital where Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen got treatment after a suicide attempt in the late 1960s, she encountered a burn victim who had set herself on fire. In the memoir, Kaysen wonders about the moment the woman lit the match, questioning whether she’d felt the same “inspiration” that ...

  8. Jan 14, 2000 · 3:10 to Yuma. Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, "Girl, Interrupted" is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental...

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