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I remember in the press junket for Girl, Interrupted she would just be so open about her problems and then I would come in and everyone would think I was so boring. So it's really great to see she's found her calling in her personal life. Ryder did become close friends with Murphy, whose agoraphobic character Daisy refuses to eat anything other than her deli owner father's chicken and hoards the carcasses under her bed.

Alone in her own apartment after being released from the hospital, Daisy ends up killing herself. Almost 10 years to the day after the Girl, Interrupted came out, Murphy died suddenly of what later was determined to be complications of pneumonia, anemia and multiple drug intoxication. Ryder admitted to Total Film that she couldn't watch the movie anymore because of Murphy's own tragic end. Playing that character wasn't "a matter of difficult, hard or easy The rapport on set "was sort of wonderful," Murphy said.

Forget the fact that it was all actresses and all women—which is inspiring just in the fact that there was a script that had so many amazing roles for young women.

They were extraordinary artists and extraordinary humans, and so I learned a lot about them in a humane manner and I learned a lot about them on camera in an artistic manner. And on all accounts that can't possibly be wrong, it was fantastic. Meanwhile, Ryder and Jolie had opposite trajectories in the '00s, as the former's cachet began to dip after being the go-to face of the '90s and the latter's star—personally and professionally—rose ever higher.

They're only four years apart in age, but Ryder had already enjoyed a decade at the top of the heap when Girl, Interrupted came out and Hollywood still hadn't figured out that actresses in their thirties were great at playing women in their thirties.

The whole of my thirties was spent that way. Now that I'm in my forties it's getting a little bit easier. She also looked back on her arrest for shoplifting in as "the place where I just wanted to stop," and that manifested itself in a dumb mistake.

The ensuing break from the public eye was the silver lining, Ryder told Porter in I just had other interests, frankly. Incidentally, in addition to the movie stardom Ryder had also proceeded Jolie in headline-making romance, having already been engaged to heartthrob Johnny Depp. Then she was in a long-term relationship with Soul Asylum singer Dave Pirner , and was dating Matt Damon in late while out promoting Girl, Interrupted.

When she read the book in , "I was just coming out of my very serious depression," Ryder told the New York Times , "and I didn't know what to label it, just as Susanna doesn't know what to label hers. Ryder told Diane Sawyer she remained drawn in by the very first paragraph of Kaysen's book, which she read for the journalist:.

Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim. Ryder shows again her skill at projecting mental states; one of her gifts is to let us know exactly what she's thinking, without seeming to. Their work here deserves a movie with more reason for existing.

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Girl, Interrupted. Popular with kids. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 3 reviews. Based on 19 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options And then there is this blankness and omission, a lot of omission. And yet Kaysen was willing to yield.

And how many people thought they were Holden Caulfield? Kaysen was riffing now, her earlier hesitation evaporated. And then, after exchanging pleasantries, she hung up. Tara Wanda Merrigan is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia. Remember Me.