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Girl, Interrupted (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Rose McGowan auditioned for the role of Lisa.
  
  
• Claire Danes auditioned for the role of Lisa.
  
  
• This is one of many roles in which Winona Ryder's character writes in a diary.
  
  
• Much of this movie was filmed at the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) State Hospital, which was still in use for treatment of mentally ill patients until it closed in 2005.
  
  
• The band in the graduation scene is from William Penn High School in York, Pennsylvania.
  
  
• The guy who first starts dancing with Susannah at the post-graduation party is an uncredited cameo by Henry Alex Rubin, the film's Second Unit Director.
  
  
• There is a line in the movie said by Angelina Jolie's character, "Lisa" that is a poem by 'Dorothy Parker' called "Resume": "Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live."
  
  
• The quote that Dr. Wick uses during her first meeting with Susannah is from Lucio Anneo Seneca, a Roman philosopher and father of Stoicism.
  
  
• The book and film Girl, Interrupted take their title from the painting "Girl Interrupted at her Music" by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
  
  
• Angelina Jolie avoided any communication with Winona Ryder when making this movie claiming that if she saw anything human about Winona Ryder, she wouldn't have been able to act out the sociopath character of Lisa Rowe as effectively.
  
  

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