
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 (Mich... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesRicci commits fully, driven to bring Wurtzel's demons to life. |
| Film ScoutsJason GorberProzak Nation is a manipulative, cloying take on depression, a watered down film from a watered down book. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasLawrence clamors for the spotlight. If he ever found a way to make desperation look like charisma, he'd be the funniest man in America. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliLawrence is often more irritating than funny, and it doesn't help that the direction is pedestrian and the screenplay dismal. |
| New York Magazine/VultureJohn LeonardThose of you who were waiting so impatiently for the release of this movie version of Elizabeth Wurtzel's chemically enhanced Weltschmerz will be as sorry as the film itself... |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfMuch like I imagine spending time with Wurtzel herself, Prozac Nation is a laborious, annoying, and wholeheartedly repulsive experience. |
| Film ThreatRory L. AronskyOutside of Ricci, everything's been sucked out to a bland finish. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrThe jokes are so tired and irritating in the film, I found myself anticipating the funny gags from the trailers because those were the only ones that were remotely humorous. In fact, I only laughed three times in the whole picture. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezRicci, a largely inconsistent and limited actress, is splendid when the atomic bomb inside her character's head goes off. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordwell-made, but almost relentlessly downbeat portrait of self-destruction -- it makes Winona Ryder's similar 'Girl, Interrupted' look like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm' |