Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 07/05/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
Following up his critically acclaimed debut
Insomnia (1997), Norwegian director
Erik Skjoldbjaerg makes his first English-language feature with this adaptation of the book by
Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Christina Ricci stars as
Lizzie, a prize-winning student heading off to Harvard where she intends to study journalism and launch a career as a
rock music critic. However,
Elizabeth's fractured family situation including an errant father (
Nicholas Campbell) and a neurotic, bitterly hypercritical mother (
Jessica Lange) has led to a struggle with depression. When her all-night, drug-fueled writing binges and emotional instability alienate her roommate and best friend,
Ruby (
Michelle Williams), as well as both her first (
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and second (
Jason Biggs) boyfriends,
Lizzie seeks psychiatric counseling from
Dr. Diana Sterling (
Anne Heche), who prescribes the wonder drug Prozac. Despite success as a writer that includes a gig writing for
Rolling Stone and some mellowing out thanks to her medication,
Lizzie begins to feel that the pills are running her life and faces some tough choices about her future.
Prozac Nation (2001) is a longtime dream project of star
Ricci, who also serves as one of the film's co-producers.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
;)
