Rider, Jolie did the best they could, but....

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2000)

Girl Interrupted should have re-titled "Girls Uninteresting". The story is about a girl who get placed in an asylum set in the mid-60's. There, Winona Rider meets up with Angelina Jolie and from there the fun stops. Suffice it to say that Jolie as the "Bad Girl" of the movie was less than convincing. I mean, come on. ANYBODY can smoke cigarettes and say the "F" word forty times in the movies. If you don't believe me, see "Casino". It goes from boring, to twisted, to psychotic and finishes off at predictable. This movie keeps me guessing as to how Winona Rider ever got as big of a star as she did. She's been in some real stinkers in her career (i.e. "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael", "Edward Scissorhands", "Mermaids", and now "Girl, Interrupted".) Rider could have ended her career at "Beetlejuice" and probably would have been better off.
But, all is not lost. For out of the shadows of a painfully boring movie comes Whoopi Goldberg. This move also made me appreciate Goldberg more. She has this gift of taking weak, uninteresting scripts and making them somewhat tolerable. (i.e. "Clara's Heart", "Sister Act II", and ANY episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation") Whoopi was the only thing that kept me from walking out being thankful that my friend paid for this movie and not me.
Girl, Interrupted- *** 3 stars out of 10. (Two for Whoopi Goldberg, and one for the fact that eventually the movie had an ending)