It's 1967 and 17-year-old Susanna Kaysen is like a lot of American teenagers her age confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the radiply changing world around her. The psychiatrist she meets with (courtesy of her parents), however, gives this behavior a name Borderline Personality Disorder, ''manifested by uncertainty about self-image, long-term goals, types of friends or lovers to have and which values to adopt''- and whisks her away to Claymoore Hospital.

Here, Susanna discovers Lisa, Daisy, Georgina, Polly and Janet- a group of offbeat young women who not only become her closest friends, but light Susanna''s way back to something she had lost- herself.

Directed by
James Mangold

Cast
Winona Ryder - Susanna
Angelina Jolie - Lisa
Clea DuVall - Georgina
Brittany Murphy - Daisy
Elisabeth Moss - Polly
Jared Leto - Tobias Jacobs
Jeffrey Tambor - Doctor Potts
Vanessa Redgrave - Doctor Wick
Whoopi Goldberg - Valerie
Angela Bettis - Janet
Jillian Armenante - Cynthia
Drucie McDaniel - M-G
Alison Claire - Gretta

Production Co.
Red Wagon Entertainment
Konrad Pictures

Produced by
Susanna Kaysen
Georgia Kacandes
Cathy Konrad

Studio
Columbia Pictures

Writer
Susanna Kaysen
James Mangold

Music
Mychael Danna