Or as the hospital's unflappably down-to-earth ward nurse, Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg), puts it when Susanna throws one of her tantrums: "You are a lazy, self-indulgent Plainly, a shrill, whiny pain in the neck.
Ryder gives her most penetrating screen performance, one that deserves extra credit for not pleading for our love.ĭuring much of the film, adapted from Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her nearly two-year stay at McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Mass., in the late 1960s, Ms. InĬonveying her character's volatile emotional life Ms. Ryder (who served as an executive producer) digs hungrily into the role of a neurotic young woman who, in today's therapeutic parlance, "acts out" with a vengeance. That would send furniture flying in all directions.Īcting out with a vengeance: Winona Ryder in "Girl, Interrupted." Watching her on the screen, you sometimes have the uneasy feeling that the wrong remark could trigger a tantrum Young woman who, despite her good looks, doesn't appear entirely comfortable inside her own skin.
Ith her tense little-girl voice and big round eyes popping with heated questions, Winona Ryder has always radiated the high-strung energy of a brainy
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