In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder-an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify-and sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself in an OZ-like nether world of seductive and disturbed young women: among them Lisa, a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape with Susanna, Daisy, a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken, and Polly, a remarkably kind burn victim. Ultimately, assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick, and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie, Susanna, like Dorothy, resolves to leave this Oz and reclaim her life.
Production 3 Art Entertainment; Columbia Pictures Corporation; Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG [de]; Red Wagon Productions;
Cast Names John Bobby; Larry Jameson; Kenneth Keith Kallenbach; Eric Mitchell; Jeannie Dalton; Annie Marter; Winona Ryder; Angelina Jolie; Whoopi Goldberg; Brittany Murphy; Clea DuVall; Elisabeth Moss; Vanessa Redgrave; Jared Leto; Jeffrey Tambor; Angela Bettis; Jillian Armenante; Drucie McDaniel; Alison Claire; Christina Myers; Joanna Kerns; Travis Fine; Gloria Barnhart; Josie Gammell; Bruce Altman; Mary Kay Place; Ray Baker; KaDee Strickland; Christian Monroe; Kurtwood Smith;
Box Office USD 28,871,190
Release Date 1999-12-08 (premiere) 1999-12-21 (limited) 2000-01-14
Genres Biography; Drama;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for strong language and content relating to drugs,
sexuality and suicide.