Prozac Nation

About halfway through "Prozac Nation," which took four years to finally be released for public viewing, I thought to myself that maybe it wasn't so much a bad film as much as just a film I didn't get. ... Full Review

Based on Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir , an autobiography by Elizabeth Wurtzel, this screen adaptation extracts fine performances by all actors: anyway, two are mention-worthy: Christina Ricci and Jessica Lange. This is perhaps Ricci's finest performance to date: subtle and intense at the same time. ... Full Review

It really isnt a very good movie, per se, but it is a revealing examination of clinical depression and its effects. A no frills DVD release from Miramax, Prozac Nation has only one extra feature, that being the inclusion of theAnatomy of a Scene, episode from the Sundance cable TV channel about filming some of the more emotional sequences present in the film. ... Full Review

Or maybe the fact that the book's author said the film was "horrible" had something to do with the distributor's reluctance to show it theatrically. A mark of the film industry's faith in "Prozac Nation" is the fact that it was made in 2001, and then when it found an international distributor, Miramax, was released only in limited overseas markets, never premiering in the United States until it appeared on cable in 2005. ... Full Review

The upside of Miramax not releasing Prozac Nation in theaters is....Prozac Nation isn't very good....Ricci, a largely inconsistent and limited actress, is splendid when the atomic bomb inside her character's head goes off.... ... Full Review

The following year, the magazine published another essay by Sandra Tsing Loh, 47, announcing the end of her 20-year marriage-she had an affair-and cautioning readers against what can happen when your husband considers mastering the perfect bouillabaisse recipe a more... ... Full Article

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Meet Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation" and recent Yale Law School graduate.See her biography, photos and video here. It has been reported the Elizabeth Wurtzel, who sat for the July 2008 bar exam in New York, did not... ... Full Article

February 05, 2008 in print edition E-10 Imagine Captain Ahab - that fiery-eyed, vengeance-goaded mariner - faced with a choice: Chase a great big whale or swallow an itty-bitty pill. ... Full Article

One would think that Norwegian director Erik Skjoldbjaerg had Bierce's aphorism in mind when he set about to film Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling, autobiographical book, "Prozac Nation," in 2001. ... Full Article

Time was, I used to snap up every book I could about depression, especially books written by depressed people. Starting with Elizabeth Wurtzel's classic Prozac Nation , I burned through what was, by the mid-'90s, fast becoming a cottage industry,... ... Full Article