From the August issue of AudioVideoRevolution.com...
Prozac Nation
Film rating: 2 stars
Sound/picture rating: 3 stars
There has to be an interesting behind-the-scenes story regarding ³Prozac
Nation.² The autobiographical novel by Elizabeth Wurtzel was a best seller
in the early 90s, and actress Christina Ricci was an early and devoted
fan.
She worked hard to get the film made‹she¹s listed as an executive
producer‹and gives an intense, committed performance. She, or Miramax,
made
an unusual choice for director: the Norwegian Erik Skjoldbjærg, who hadn¹t
made a movie in English before.
The movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2001 to mixed reviews.
It opened in a few countries over the next couple of years‹but went unseen
in the United States. In fact, it became notorious for being unreleased to
the point that jokes were made about its absence from theater screens. And
then earlier this year, it did open‹on cable TV. Now it¹s out on a modest
DVD.
If you even caught a whiff of the troubles that ³Prozac Nation²
encountered
in getting shown to Americans, the audience it was made for (though it is
a
U.S.-German coproduction) you probably assumed that sheer rottenness is
what
kept the movie from being shown. The surprise is that ³Prozac Nation² is
an
intelligent, well-made movie with some good performances.
Read the full review at:
http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/prozacnation.html
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