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

Early in Douglas Coupland's new novel " Generation A ," a young Frenchman named Julien rants that he is "angry at the fabric of time, at whatever it is that makes time seem to drag on forever, that makes life... ... Full Article