All who attempt to compare this film to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest please respond now

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2004)

Upon just having watched the film, Girl, Interrupted, I was not expecting anything great and thus was surprised at what I was given. So far of what I have seen in regard to films with Angelina Jolie, Whoopie Goldberg, Winona Ryder, and Brittany Murphy, who are the four actresses I found to be the most impressive, the roles they inhabited in this film were singularly sublime. When I think of these women, having not had the privilege of meeting them, and only their movies from which to observe them, I feel that their own personalities and characters are uncannily suited to the women they portray in the film itself. The casting director alone should be applauded for his or her efforts in assembling such an extraordinary group. In always choosing to keep my comments short and brief I will finish with a few points of good and bad commentary because those portions I found to be the most highlighting will give you, the viewer, an uncompromising outlook. The film, from what I could envision after having it ruminate in my mind for only a day, seemed to try to empower women, not through extreme political opposition or supposed enlightened ideologies, but through living out their lives as normal individuals. Goldberg's aggressive expression of psychology in a humanitarian wrapper as she responds to Ryder's character's pampered pouting after Lisa (Jolie) leaves the institution and Ryder is dropped into the bathtub, is the climactic turning point for this movie's righteous success, and a non-threatening addition to this movie's estrogen-charged atmosphere. Anyone who thinks this movie resembles One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest needs to have their eyes and ears checked because besides the fact that a majority of the story takes place in a mental institution it is absolutely and completely different in every imaginable aspect. I am just venting a little at this point, sorry if it is distracting in any way. If anyone tries to format any sort of a linear comparison of these two films, I will be forced to respond harshly to your criticisms with a command of my own. In terms of stars, 4 being the highest and none being the lowest, I give this film 3 stars.