Don't read the book and you might really get into the movie. Or, see the movie first, then read the great book. I didn't read the book, so I really got into this movie. True, I really get into Christina Ricci!!! And this is one of her best roles. Christina deserved an Oscar for this one, but it came out the same year as 'Monster' which also co-stared Christina. As if you didn't know! Like 'Monster', this movie ain't pretty, but it's real, and, for most of us, more relevent. Most of us know, or have known, young women who get trapped in this mental-state. I think a lot of us can relate to the pain and confussion.
I read the Psychology Today article on this movie, and it sounds really good. Definitely going to check it out now!
I love the book, and heard Elizabeth Wurtzel actually hates the movie. But, ive been waiting for it for a long time. im hoping its good, but the trailer looks... eh.
Ebert and Roeper reveiwed it today, and it got 2 thumbs up. I've gotta see this even if it's just for Christina's nude scene!
I've been wanting to see this movie since I first heard of its existance. Although the DVD is now out, I've checked around online - finding that no Blockbuster Video or Best Buy retailers in my area are carrying this title. It makes me even more anxious to see the movie...
It must be difficult for a book's author, or for someone who reads and loves a book, not to be critical of a movie's shortcomings. I know if I had read Janet Fitch's 'White Oleander' before seeing the movie I might not have been so powerfully captivated by Alison Lohan's 'Astrid', Michelle Pfiffer's 'Ingrid', Renne Zelwegger, Robin Wright Penn, and the rest. But I didn't, so I was! Now, having seen the movie 'Prozac Nation', I can't wait to read the Elizabeth Wurtzel's book. If the book is half as good as the movie, it'll be worth it.
Forget the book!! Miss this film, and you simply miss one of the best cinematic experiences of twenty aught three. Cinema is an entirely different medium, and can only be fully appreciated from an entirely defferent point of view. When a performing artist, like Christina Ricci, buys the rights to a book, they mine that book for cinematic ideas. Even if the artist choses to use nothing more than the book's title, the film stands on its own artistic merits as cinema.
Fyi the movie didn't come out everywhere so you can't go recommending it.... also you need to broaden your movie horizon if this is the best film ever.
Thanks for the heads-up hiro. I didn't mean to confuse you. Aught-three simply means the year 2003 not the best ever. IMO, 'Prozac Nation' is not the best film ever, but certainly one the very best from aught-three.
I hate it when people come in criticising films that I love, but what can I say ... I thought this film was weak and boring, the script anodyne and prosaic. Only rescued slightly by having Lou Reed and a naked Christina Ricci in it ... There are much better films about pain and confusion, Garden State deals with similar themes a hundred times better. Oh well
