Prozac Nation (2001)

Ricci and Lange are superb in this.

A cathartic Lange breakdown. 🤌🏼

Stop pushing Ricci on this site.

The problem with the film is that it is not about depression but about BPD. Everything in Lizzie screams borderline personality.

R6 Either way, it’s a stark, unsentimental—and underrated—examination of the reverberating impact of psychopathologies, be they mood or behavioral disorders. Ricci’s portrayal of Wurtzel’s ennui, mania, and despair has a pitiful, pathetic quality to it that’s painfully truthful, and Lange matches her. Her performance brims with pathos and is peppered with a soupçon of mania, implying that she may have unintentionally modeled for “Lizzie” some of the characteristics she and her daughter now grapple with and rail against.