Girl, Interrupted

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Year:1999
Director:James Mangold
Written by:Susanna Kaysen (Novel), Lisa Loomer (Screenplay), James Mangold (Screenplay), Anna Hamilton Phelan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
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Film Scripts About Psychiatric Institutions

Psychiatric institutions are a mysterious world to most people. Despite the fact that most people suffer from psychological disorders, most are treated outside of a clinic with medicine and therapy. People who end up in psychiatric institutions are frightening to those in the outside world. For some reason, these people were unable to be treated with traditional techniques and methods to the point that they became a risk to themselves or others.

Because of this, psychiatric institutions are otherworldly- an experience that many fear to enter but will do so if from the safety of their home. Many films have been made about psychiatric institutions. Dramas, comedies and horror films have taken from the taboo world to create fictional stories that delight viewers. However, there are a few films that stand out from the rest.

From the complex world of psychiatric institutions, here are some of the best scripts that depict both the gritty realism of the experience and an interesting story to go along with it.

  1. (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Script
  2. (1995) 12 Monkeys Script
  3. (1999) Girl, Interrupted Script
  4. (2001) Don’t Say a Word Script [Transcript]
  5. (2002) The Ring Script [Transcript]
  6. (2008) Changeling Script