- Release Date: 2003
- Runtime: 95 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams ... see all
- Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
- Plot: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a teenager accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother Mrs. Wurtzel since she was two years old,... Read more
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Critics Reviews
| Apr 16, 2007Matchflick
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
| May 23, 2006Desicritics.org, India
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.
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| Jul 09, 2005The Trades
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.
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| Jul 07, 2005DVD Town
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.
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| Jun 28, 2005Slant Magazine
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
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The Cautionary Matrons
observer.com –
2009-10-20
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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
Prozac's metaphorical power
latimes.com –
2008-02-05
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
Prozac Nation (DVD)
dvdtown.com –
2005-07-07
My Depression: A Picture Book
popmatters.com –
2005-05-09
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

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