Insanity Is No Rock 'n' Roll Fun

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2001)

This could have been a harmless feel - good girlie movie, had its makers not felt obliged to give serious issues such as mental health the Hollywood treatment -- hey, insanity isn't so bad, aren't we all a little crazy? And were not "the Sixties" just a time when parents were a little stern and long - haired hunks burnt their draft notes to a Jefferson Airplane soundtrack?
If you believe that stuff, Girl, Interrupted is for you. Personally I am sorely disappointed that such a load of crap is coming from a director (Copland's James Mangold) and actors (Vanessa Redgrave) who once knew how to do better. I just hope that they really needed the money.