Prozac Nation

Starring:Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange, Jesse Moss (II), Nicholas Campbell, Zoe Miller (II), Sheila Paterson, Rob Freeman, Nicole Parker (II), Frida Betrani, Klodyne Rodney, Ian Tracey, Wendy Noel, Bill Marchant, Tom Kent (II), Christine Anton, Cindy Lentol
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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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 book. Ricci puts her all into playing Lizzie, a self-absorbed Ivy League writer wannabe who alienates friends and family with her out-of-control mood swings and other chemical imbalances. Ricci is committed and convincing, but nothing she does ameliorates Lizzie's exasperating personality; spending 90 minutes around this person is an eternity of tantrums. Around to provide audience stand-ins are Jason Biggs, Michelle Williams, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, all of whom disapprove of Lizzie's self-destructive behavior. Jessica Lange, professional as always, is Lizzie's brittle mother. If the movie really did capture the sense of the zeitgeist suggested by its grandiose title, or if it carried some intriguing stylistic urgency that carried us into its depressive labyrinth, perhaps Lizzie's journey would be palatable. But the long delay between Prozac Nation's shooting (in 2001) and its emergence on cable-TV and DVD is all too easy to understand. --Robert Horton

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Award winners Christina Ricci (CURSED, MONSTER) and Jessica Lange (BIG FISH, ROB ROY) star in this emotionally charged true story about a journey into excess! When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel (Ricci) earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so promising leads to self-destructive behavior and paralyzing depression that reflects an entire generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and high expectations. Based on the best-selling autobiographical novel, PROZAC NATION also stars Michelle Williams (THE STATION AGENT), Anne Heche (JOHN Q), Jason Biggs (JERSEY GIRL), and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM).

Customer Reviews:

What Requiem for a Dream was for drugs, this is for depression.......2007-04-14

Like most movies with actual content, this move is underrated at 3/5 stars.

Great acting. Not a movie which appeals to everyone. But in my opinion, if it got across what it was trying to get across, then it is a quality movie. That's not to say everyone need like it. This is somewhat akin to someone who doesn't like spicy foods walking into a Thai restaurant and saying the food sucks.

Where Requiem for a Dream was designed to make you feel the highs and lows of drug abuse, this was meant for depression. I really thought it did a good job, just as Requiem did.

I have to say, my gut wrenched when she would go off on a rant when I knew she didn't mean to, I turned the sound down for a moment! She played the role well...perhaps too well? :)

We all have our problems, it's a shame if you take this movie at face value and think that: well she must have problems because her dad left. If you write it off like that, you miss the point. People are much worse off than her. Pain is not an absolute scale, its utterly relative to your life. Your parents don't need to be divorced to be depressed. This affects a lot of people and even more people are very ignorant about it.

PROZAC NATION!!.......2007-04-06

ALTHOUGH I WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE BOOK THAT THIS FILM WAS BASED UPON, THE MOVIE WAS ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD!
MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE FILM SHOULD BE VIEWED AS AN ACTING SHOWCASE FOR CHRISTINA RICCI!
HER PERFORMANCE WAS SPECTACULAR!
PROZAC NATION MIGHT JUST BE TELLING US ABOUT THE TYPE OF WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY AND HOW DEALING WITH OUR DAY-TO-DAY LIVES CAN BE RATHER DIFFICULT!
RICCI FANS SHOULD DEFINETELY SEE IT!!

Vincent Gallo as a chick........2007-03-05

Decent acting, but this forgettable memoir has all the gravitas of a Darlene-heavy episode of TV's Roseanne. The narcissism of this story is so advanced it appears oblivious to what a pedestrian diary of teenage angst it's reading from. Liz does something bad and gets yelled at. She yells back, then feels bad and cries. This describes nearly every scene. Mental illness has been done, and done better, on film. This ain't all that deep. Go watch "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" if you need to push this junk out of your brain.

A sensitive look at the world of mental illness.......2007-02-19

The beautiful Christina Ricci stars as Elizabeth Wurtzel, a young girl with a talent for writing, battling with severe mental illness and the background of a broken family.
She has to deal with an overbearing mother (Jessica Lange) and it seems going to Harvard will be a bright new chapter in her life.

However the life of drugs and sex at university is not always the best enviroment for someone as fragile as Elizabeth, and she begins to fall about, as she is abandoned by her friends and boyfriend.
Undoubtedly Christina Ricci's talent is what makes this a five star production.
A sensitive and hopefully revealing look at the world of depression and mental illnes , adapted from the book by Elizabeth Wurtzel. One has to understand the phenomenon to really sympathize with what Christina's character is going through, which her university friends clearly dont.
Two interesting things about the movie, regarding Christina Ricci's career.
This was Christina's first nude scene in a movie, and the second time , a Christina, a Christian has played the role of a Jewish character, the first time being the magnifficent The Man Who Cried.

Lost Time.......2006-12-12

Granted, I've not read the book. It seemed that the film left out vital parts of the story, or it was poorly edited/directed. It just seemed really choppy and inconsistent. The value of the plot is immense, I just didn't think that as a package the film delivered it well. The acting was great, though I constantly found myself thinking that Michelle Williams looked so much older than the rest of her peers that the illusion of college was broken for me. I wanted the film to be this deep commentary on our sanctioned drug culture via the mental health audience and I never felt that it got there. It was more a noncommital nontreatment of mental conditions.

American Pie 2 [UNRATED VERSION] [UNCUT VERSION]

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American Pie 2 [UNRATED VERSION] [UNCUT VERSION]

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

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To the horror of prudes everywhere, American Pie 2 is even funnier than its popular predecessor, pushing the R rating with such unabashed ribaldry that you'll either be appalled or surprised by its defiant celebration of the young-adult male libido. Females will be equally shocked or delighted, because like American Pie this appealing, character-based comedy puts the women in control while offering a front-row view of horny guys in all their dubious glory. Which is to say, American Pie is mostly about sex--or, to be more specific, breasts, genitalia, "potential" lesbianism, blue silicone sex toys, crude methods of seduction, "the rule of three" (just watch the movie), a shower of "champagne," phone sex, tantric sex, and, oh yeah... superglue. In the case of college freshman Jim (Jason Biggs), performance anxiety plagues his upcoming reunion with sexy Czech exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), but his buddies from American Pie have a solution: rent a Lake Michigan beach house for the summer, throw wild parties to lure the local "hotties," and score big-time. Beach Party this ain't: blessed with a complete cast reunion from AP1 (including Eugene Levy as Jim's dad), this sequel is anything but innocent, and with the exception of drugs (which are conspicuously absent), pretty much anything goes. The gags are almost nonstop, and director J.B. Rogers (recovering from his debut debacle Say It Isn't So) handles them with laudable precision, allowing his young cast (particularly Biggs, who epitomizes comedic good sportsmanship) to run with lines that most people wouldn't dare utter aloud. The result is a liberating and eminently good-natured comedy that needn't apologize for its one-track mind

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