Incredible, *CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS*

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2003)

This is the most fantastic movie I have ever seen, it is my absolute favorite movie of all time. Angelina Jolie is truly the annointed one, and Ryder is incredible.
The movie starts out where Susanna Kaysen(Winona Ryder) tries to commit suicide by chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. She denies this was a suicide attempt("I had a headache!"). She is sent to Claymoore, where she quickly befriends Lisa Rowe. Lisa is a sociopath.
Anyway, Polly "Torch" Clark has a freak out, because she just realized that she was ugly because she had set fire to herself years before. She throws a fit, and Lisa and Susanna stay up singing to her- but not before drugging the nurse on guard.
They get in serious trouble for this- Lisa is put in another ward, and Susanna pouts. Lisa comes back, and tells Susanna to come back to Florida with her, so that Lisa can become the new Cinderella("f I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.") and so that Susanna can be Snow White.
They crash for the night at Daisy Randone's new apartment. Daisy Randone is a victim of sexual abuse by her own father. While Susanna and Lisa stay at Daisy's apartment, Lisa mocks Daisy by saying hurtful(Yet very truthful) things("They didn't release you because you're better, Daisy... they just gave up. You call this a life? Hmm? Taking daddy's money! Buying your dollies and your knick-knacks! And eating his f*cking chicken, fattening up like a prize f*cking heifer... you changed the scenery, but not the f*cking situation, and the warden makes housecalls. And everybody knows, EVERYBODY knows... that he f*cks you. What they don't know... is that you like it. You... like it."). Susanna takes a walk the next morning, and comes back to Daisy's house only to find that she killed herself.
She calls the ambulance, and Lisa takes off. Susanna takes this time to write in her journal, and she gets better, except when Lisa is caught and brought back to the ward. Susanna tells Lisa that they are about to discharge her. The night before Susanna leaves, Lisa snatches her journal, and reads hurtful comments that Susanna wrote about everyone aloud. Georgina Tuskin, who is a pathological liar, got angry and said to Susanna, "You'd better erase it, Susanna, you'd better erase it! Because my father is head of the C.I.A. and could have you dead in MINUTES!!!!"
Susanna asks Lisa why she is doing this, and Lisa gives her reasons. Susanna tells Lisa that the reason why nobody wished that she was dead was because she's dead already, her heart is cold. What does she expect? She's a sociopath. But anyway, before Susanna leaves, they both make amends, and they are friends again.
All in all, it is the most wonderful movie of all time, and a lot of the scenes made me cry. 10 out of 10