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Plot:
Fans of Christina Ricci will note that the saucer-eyed actress takes a big leap from deadpan-child and grumpy-ingenue roles with Prozac Nation, an adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's bestselling...( read more 
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MCT:May 11, 2008Extremely well written and Christina Ricci throws in a performance well worthy of a great script. I really loved how well written the dialogue and script is.
I'm not really sure if Christina manages to portray the real Elizabeth Wurtzel as in her book since I've not read it. But one thing I could say for sure is I really liked this. My favourite Christina Ricci film as of yet.
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MCT:April 11, 2008This is the most "real" movie I've seen in ages. The cause and effect format is perfectly done: we hear the internal conflict through the narration of the protagonist and the ramifications caused by this conflict. It's definitely interesting to see the different relationships develop and, ultimately, shatter as a result of the main character's depression. Christina Ricci gives a brilliant performance and the film couldn't have been better made.
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MCT:April 5, 2008
My all time favourite book, but not my all time favourite movie. I really wanted this to be a great movie! Ricci puts her all into it, and she shines as Wurtzel, but overall the movie doesn't work. The boyfriends were entirely mis-cast. They didn't work at all, and the overall feeling of the book didn't crossover to the movie.
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MCT:April 4, 2008This film was boring and depressing. Christina Ricci gave an outstanding performance but her co-stars were annoying and generally unlikeable. Lange especially ruined this film for me. I wasnt expecting Valley of the Dolls but I wasnt expecting this mess either. This film will cause you to need Prozac.
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MCT:March 28, 2008
Prozac Nation may be viewed as an effective and moving drama about a young woman (Christina Ricci as Elizabeth) who has no idea how to get it together and behave like a human being. Elizabeth is a self-absorbed train wreck with abandonment issues going back to when her photographer dad dumped her neurotic mom. Elizabeth has many methods of distracting herself from her pain: self-cutting, drug abuse, and throwing herself headlong into love and rock music with equal fervor. The latter wins her a prestigious award (for her article on Lou Reed, who puts in an amusing cameo) and some attention from Rolling Stone and The New Yorker (for which she wrote some genuinely good pieces on rock; look 'em up sometime). None of this makes her happy, though, because as soon as the pressure is on to be a real writer, she comes down with a hellacious case of writer's block.
If we empathize at all with Elizabeth, who is intensely dislikable and even cruel at times (her saving grace, and the movie's, is that she knows this full well), it's because Skjoldbjærg lowers us into her malaise. This director not only understands depression but knows how to communicate it without turning his films into dreary downers.
Ricci commits fully, driven to bring Elizabeth?s demons to life. She sidesteps most of the movie-star tricks that make a character lovably unlovable -- Elizabeth is toxic, a black hole of need that drains everyone she meets. Elizabeth's behavior poisons everything she touches; she understands this, as do Ricci and Skjoldbjærg. That's the tragedy of the movie: Elizabeth can understand all this very well, and she can helplessly watch herself fuck things up, but she can't find her way around it. She realizes what she's doing but just can't stop.
Elizabeth Wurtzel is a compelling voice, bravely unfurling her mind in all its unlovely candor, but as a human being she has serious problems. "Prozac Nation" offers her story without asking you to love or excuse her.
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1stphoenixposted 422 days ago
