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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American psychological drama film directed by James Mangold, starring Winona Ryder and an ensemble supporting cast including Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Travis Fine, Angela Bettis, Jillian Armenante, Whoopi Goldberg, and Vanessa Redgrave. The film is based on based on writer Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name chronicling her stay in a mental institution in the late 1960s.Shortly after her high school graduation and a subsequent (probable) suicide attempt, the upper-middle-class 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Ryder) is admitted against her wishes to the Claymoore Psychiatric Hospital. There, she meets and in some cases befriends a group of other young female patients: Georgina (DuVall), a compulsive liar; Polly (Moss), a saccharine but disturbed burn victim; Janet (Bettis), an anorexic; Cynthia (Armenante), a butch lesbian — homosexuality still being regarded as a mental disorder at the time; Daisy (Murphy), who's hostile and dealing with an eating disturbance of her own; and Lisa (Jolie), the rebellious and sociopathic but charismatic ringleader of the bunch, who Susanna takes a special liking to.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Susanna is eventually swept up into the group's revolt against the oppression of institutionalized life, sneaking into unauthorized areas late at night and continuously provoking the hospital staff. Along the way, she is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, but struggles with the validity of the diagnosis and the wider validity of her even being admitted in the first place. As her relationships with her fellow patients grow in complexity and intensity, Susanna discovers how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.Jolie won quite a few awards for her supporting role, among them an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Susanna has a big one following Daisy's suicide, and it's what allows her to finally realise she needs to get out of Claymoore.
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Butch Lesbian
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Butch Lesbian: Cynthia. Creates a bit of Values Dissonance, because at the time homosexuality was considered a mental illness.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Susanna asks if she can go home by Thanksgiving, and points out that she's improved quite a bit and that nothing's happened for weeks. And then Lisa's back.
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Kirk Summation
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Kirk Summation: Susanna gives one to Lisa that doubles as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech near the end of the film.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: In Susanna's opening narrative, right before the film cuts to a flashback of her failed suicide attempt and having her stomach pumped by the hospital.
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The Sociopath
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The Sociopath: Lisa, literally, having been diagnosed as such.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: It's a heartwarming feel-good story. Honest. In addition, there is a great exchange in the trailer that never made it into the finished film:
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The Bully
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The Bully: Lisa, mainly to Daisy, but she also makes Polly cry at one point for eavesdropping on Susanna when she's with her boyfriend and, when in solitary confinement, she gives M.G a Hannibal Lecture.
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Wrong-Name Outburst
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Wrong-Name Outburst: When trying to break out of Claymoore, Lisa calls Susanna "Jamie." Susanna herself is visibly shaken by this.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: The film version of Daisy self-harms, in a Period Piece that takes place at the time of The Vietnam War, no less.
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Fingore
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Fingore: Susanna accidentally slams her fingers in a heavy sliding door towards the end of the film.
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Cute Kitten
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Cute Kitten: Ruby, Daisy's cat, who's later adopted by Susanna and later by Polly.
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A House Divided
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A House Divided: Susanna's confrontation with Lisa drives them apart from one another after Daisy's suicide. Later, Lisa steals Susanna's journal and reads it aloud, turning Georgina and Polly against Susanna in the tunnels underneath the hospital.
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Self-Harm
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Self-Harm: Susanna repeatedly bangs her inner wrist until it bruises in the novel (which is also implied at the beginning of the film), and Daisy cuts her arms in the film. In addition, a deleted scene shows that Lisa uses lit cigarettes to burn the image of a cat onto her arm - this is the reason she's always seen wearing a band over her forearm. It's also alluded to even further in the finished film when Daisy snaps "Look at your own arm, asshole!".
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: Lisa, all the time.
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Averted. Susanna and Lisa's rendition of "Downtown" is realistically off-key, and is one of the film's more heartwarming moments.
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Covered with Scars
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Covered with Scars: Polly, due to the fact that she set herself on fire.
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Adaptational Sexuality
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Adaptational Sexuality: In the movie, Cynthia is committed to Claymoore for being gay. This is changed from the book, where she has bipolar disorder.
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Whoopi Epiphany Speech
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Whoopi Epiphany Speech : Valerie, to Susanna.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Lisa seems unable to open her mouth without dropping at least one F-bomb. Daisy is quite foul-mouthed, especially towards Lisa.
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Hollywood New England
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Hollywood New England: Claymoore is in suburban Boston.
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Then Let Me Be Evil
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Then Let Me Be Evil: Lisa's villainous breakdown after Susanna recovers and is on track to be discharged from the asylum soon.
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The Pollyanna
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The Pollyanna: Polly's almost always cheerful and friendly in spite of her situation.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Given that Georgina's a pathological liar, it's natural that she lets slip a few of these. Also counts as a bit of a Brick Joke, as she states this fact about her when Susanna meets her, but her outrageous lies aren't shown until the end.
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Ending by Ascending
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Ending by Ascending: The last time we see Daisy, she's heading up the stairs into a bright white light.
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Draft Dodging
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Draft Dodging: After being drafted, Susanna's boyfriend, Toby, tries to get her to run away with him to Canada.
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Mood-Swinger
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Mood-Swinger: Lisa. Her opening scene best illustrates this trait - she goes from cheerful and cocky upon returning to Claymoore, to a frightening rage when she discovers that Susanna is Georgina's new roommate.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: Later, during the same scene:
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Age-Gap Romance
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Age-Gap Romance: It's not precisely a romance, but Susanna sleeps with a college professor twice her age.
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Flashback
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Flashback: Susanna has several, with some depicting the events that drove her to overdose on aspirin, and others introducing characters that show up later.
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Does Not Like Spam
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Does Not Like Spam: Daisy refuses to eat any other food, other than the chicken her father makes her to eat.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: At one point, when enraged by Suzanne, Georgina screams that her dad is the head of the CIA and that he could have her killed in minutes. In the novel, this is actually not referenced by Georgina, but her boyfriend Wade's go-to story to impress people is how his dad was a big-time CIA agent involved in Watergate.
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Boyish Short Hair
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Boyish Short Hair: Susanna, who sports a very short boyish styled haircut throughout the film.
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The Problem with Pen Island
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The Problem with Pen Island: Lisa's "ther-rapist"; see Insistent Terminology above.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: Daisy and her father. Though he sexually abuses her, it's implied through Daisy's part that it's consensual. Daisy is an adult and seems to be a willing participant, but her disability and financial dependence on him, as well as the possibility that she was groomed from a young age, make it doubtful whether she is capable of consenting in that situation.
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Parental Issues
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Parental Issues: Towards the end, Lisa, while ranting, claims that her own parents wish she was dead, presumably because of her illness.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: We're not sure if Claymoore (which sounds like "claymore") is named for the landmine, the battleship, or the big Scottish sword, but the implications are dangerous.
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Replacement Goldfish
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Replacement Goldfish: It's implied that Lisa sees Susanna as one for Jamie, as she calls Susanna by the wrong name when dragging her out of Claymoore.
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Robbing the Dead
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Robbing the Dead: Lisa does this to Daisy's corpse.
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Lack of Empathy
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Lack of Empathy: Lisa, as befitting a sociopath. The crowning example would probably be how she reacts to seeing Daisy's body (dead from a suicide that she definitely spurred on to begin with). While Susanna sobs in horror, she simply scoffs "What an idiot," and rummages through Daisy's pockets for money.
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The Shrink
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The Shrink: Several varieties, given that it takes place in a mental institution. The two most notable ones are Dr. Potts and Dr. Wick.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Susanna attempting it (despite her denying claims) is what got her committed to the institution. A former patient called Jamie (and former resident of Susanna's room) hanged herself, as does Daisy later in the film.
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Erotic Eating
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Erotic Eating: The "nuts" scene in the ice cream parlor.
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Crashing Dreams
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Crashing Dreams: The "checks" that interrupt Susanna's flashback daydreams early in the film.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lisa to Daisy (which is what finally tips Daisy over the edge). And later Susanna to Lisa. Even earlier, Valerie gives one to Susanna after the latter refuses to leave her bed and starts acting increasingly like Lisa. Susanna gives her one back, however. Valerie also gives Susanna one when she starts complaining about conditions at Claymore, pointing out that many institutions of the day were much worse.
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Freak Out
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Freak Out: Polly, usually the epitome of cheer, completely loses it one night, throwing things around and screaming "I'm ugly!" repeatedly. In the novel, she screams "My face!" over and over again. MG has one, as well, and gets carted away in a straitjacket. Janet (the anorexic girl, played by Angela Bettis) has one after Daisy gets released from the asylum.
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How We Got Here
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How We Got Here: The film opens with the aftermath of Susanna's confrontation with Lisa, Georgina and Polly, with most of the rest of the film leading up to that point.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: M.G. is last seen being taken away in a straitjacket due to a psychotic breakdown, and isn't present when Susanna is saying goodbye to the other patients at the end. It's fair to assume she goes to another ward, as does John the Orderly.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush: M.G, who holds a torch towards Lisa. As depicted early in the film when Lisa is being restrained and taken to solitary confinement and M.G sees this going on and tries to protect her, only to be held back by a nurse.
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Claymoore Hospital for McLean Hospital. Doesn't apply in the book, given that it's a memoir and all.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: After returning to Claymoore and learning of Susanna's progress, Lisa steals her diary, reads it out loud, turns the inmates against Susanna and begins to chase Susanna down the corridors and goes on a rant on everything she gave Susanna just before her breaking point.
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Riddle for the Ages
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Riddle for the Ages: Since Georgina is a pathological liar, it's not clear if the story she tells Susanna on Polly's burn scars is the real version or not. Particularly when Polly seems to have no allergies to the cat.
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Suspiciously Apropos Music: The next morning after spending the night at Daisy's house, Susanna can't help noticing that Daisy hasn't come out of her room yet and that the same sad song keeps playing over and over on repeat. Specifically, "The End Of The World" by Skeeter Davis.
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Get Out!
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Get Out!: Daisy screams this to Susanna and Lisa when they enter her room uninvited and screams for the nurses when they won't leave her room.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Put to use a few times. Susanna hurts her hand three times: the first when she bangs her wrist and thinks the bones are gone, the second when she slices her palm on the fence during Toby's visit, and the third when her hand is smashed in the heavy door in the basement. Susanna talks about taking a bottle of aspirin: the first time with her father's friend (Kurtwood Smith), the second time with Melvin, and the third time with Toby. She denies trying to commit suicide the first two times, then admits she was trying to kill herself. Lisa is put in solitary first when she arrives on Susanna's first day, second after they stay up singing to Polly (and Lisa and Susanna run away), and the third time after she's brought back all strung out and twitchy.
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Only Known by Their Nickname
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Only Known by Their Nickname: M.G., short for "Martian's Girlfriend".
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Black-and-White Insanity
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Black-and-White Insanity: Susanna's diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: The weather is overcast, rainy and dreary as Susanna is driven back to Claymoore by Dr. Potts following Daisy's suicide.
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Based on a True Story
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Based on a True Story: The film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen. It's not the most faithful adaptation in the world, but it's still recognizable.
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: Only to a slight degree, as most of Lisa's characterization is still intact, but in the book, Susanna notes that Lisa didn't like to sleep, but she was still more restful at night and even sat out with the night staff, painting her nails and making hot cocoa for the nurses. Also, Lisa had nothing to do with Daisy's suicide in the book.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Susanna definitely has her moments. Valerie definitely has some snark in her:
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Leave the Camera Running
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Leave the Camera Running: Several scenes contain very long Steadicam shots. The longest of which is the entire scene in which Susanna and Lisa talk to each other through a tiny window - the shot goes on for over a minute.
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Double Standard
 Girl, Interrupted / int_b6cebad3
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Double Standard: Not the film, but the morality of the time. Susanna's promiscuity is considered pathological and she asks if the reaction would have been the same had she been male.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Daisy does not like people barging into her room.
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Ambiguously Bi
 Girl, Interrupted / int_bd0230fb
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Ambiguously Bi: Susanna and Lisa, who are fixated towards one another from the start, and despite some male admirers, share a kiss while high on drugs at one point.
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Incest Subtext
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Incest Subtext: During visitation, Daisy and her father hug a little longer than one would consider normal and they break off the hug awkwardly when the nurse walks around the corner. Later, Lisa confirms these incest allegations between Daisy and her father to be true.
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Break Them by Talking
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Break Them by Talking: Lisa's speech to Daisy, which proves to be the latter's breaking point.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Several, to The Wizard of Oz. According to the commentary, the director wanted to avoid the inevitable comparisons to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and used the Oz books and film as beats in the film.
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Freudian Excuse
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All of the patients count, as they're young and mentally ill. Most of them have some kind of Freudian Excuse, but Word of God on the commentary points out that in many films, the Troubled, but Cute protagonist spits out a secret in the third act. Susanna, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a reason for her problems. She's depressed, but there's no real "breaking point" for her.
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Spoiled Brat
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Spoiled Brat: Daisy's a darker example than most as her father, who spoils her so much, is also sexually abusing her. It's this that drives Daisy to self-harm and, eventually, suicide.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Despite her haughty attitude, Daisy is this. And it doesn't take much for Lisa to push her over the edge. All of the patients count, as they're young and mentally ill. Most of them have some kind of Freudian Excuse, but Word of God on the commentary points out that in many films, the Troubled, but Cute protagonist spits out a secret in the third act. Susanna, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a reason for her problems. She's depressed, but there's no real "breaking point" for her.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": Susanna gives Lisa one during her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Daisy. Lisa ignores it.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Valerie, who's white in the book, is played by Whoopi Goldberg.
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: "Don't they know it's the end of the world..."
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Hannibal Lecture
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Hannibal Lecture: After Lisa is locked in solitary confinement, she says something (that the audience never hears) that results in M.G. being taken away in a straitjacket.
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Interrupted Intimacy
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Interrupted Intimacy: Susanna and Toby, who start kissing in her room and almost have oral sex before being walked in on by the nurses checking on the patients.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Susanna's ex Johnny (whom Toby was based on) never visited her in the memoir, and no mention of Vietnam is ever made - instead, she is visited by her current boyfriend, Nobel-winning geneticist James Watson, who wanted to take her away to England and get her a job as a private tutor.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: Lisa always pronounces "therapist" as "ther-rapist", "therapy" as "ther-rape-me" and "diagnosis" as "diag-nonsense". Daisy twice accidentally refers to her eat-in kitchen as "eat-in chicken", illustrating her unusual eating disorder.
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 Girl, Interrupted / int_eb8ec7c8
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: To call Lisa unpleasant and rude would be an understatement, though she does have her Pet the Dog moments. Barbara Gilcrest in her brief exchange with Susanna.
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Vomit Discretion Shot
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Vomit Discretion Shot: Happens during a flashback showing Susanna having her stomach pumped.
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Howl of Sorrow
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Howl of Sorrow: Lisa, during her breakdown.
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Living Emotional Crutch
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Living Emotional Crutch: It's implied that Jamie was one for Lisa- Lisa is furious when she sees Susanna in Jamie's room, which is especially notable considering Lisa's Lack of Empathy.
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Pet the Dog
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To call Lisa unpleasant and rude would be an understatement, though she does have her Pet the Dog moments.
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Ambiguous Ending / int_48c6734c
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Blame the Paramour / int_48c6734c
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Crashing Dreams / int_48c6734c
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Draft Dodging / int_48c6734c
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Ending by Ascending / int_48c6734c
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Films of 1995–1999 / int_48c6734c
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Hand Puppet / int_48c6734c
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Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_48c6734c
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The '60s / int_48c6734c
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The Joy of X / int_48c6734c
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The Problem with Pen Island / int_48c6734c
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