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Prozac Nation Storyline
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, but she misses her father and feels needy and depressive. When she joins the university, she lives with a roommate Ruby and has her sexual initiation with Noah. Her article for the local column in Crimson newspaper is awarded by Rolling Stone magazine. Lizzie becomes abusive in sex and drugs, and her existential crisis and depression increases and she hurts her friends and her mother that love her, while dating Rafe. Mrs. Wurtzel sends her to an expensive psychiatric treatment with Dr. Sterling, in spite of having difficulties paying for her medical bills and therapy sessions. After a long period of treatment under medication, and suicide attempt, Lizzie stabilizes and adjusts to the real world.
Actors
Heche, Anne as , Biggs, Jason as , Ricci, Christina as , Lange, Jessica as , Williams, Michelle as , Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan as , Campbell, Nicholas as
Prozac Nation goofs
- DATE: When Elizabeth looks down below from the hospital balcony, several cars are shown. One of them is a modern-day (non-1980s) taxi cab.
- CONT: When the grandparents are visiting for the second time, Liz takes off the same dishes twice.
- CONT: When Lizzie’s Dad takes a photo, camera is in horizontal position. When Lizzie finds the photo, it seems like it was taken by vertically-oriented camera.
- CONT: After Elizabeth has sex, when she is talking to Ruby she goes to sit on the bed. In the next shot, she is standing up.
- DATE: Elizabeth has a Bruce Springsteen “Tunnel of Love” album poster hanging in her room in 1985. The album was not released until 1987.
Prozac Nation trivia
- When Elizabeth Wurtzel is writing the piece on Bruce Springsteen, a pack of Morleys, the fictional cigarette brand from the _”The X Files” (1993)_ (qv) can be seen on her desk.
- Filmed in 2000, Miramax films planned on releasing the film in late 2001, but shelved it indefinitely in the US. A number of reasons were given for the delay, from the unlikeable nature of the central heroine to writer ‘Elizabeth Wurtzel’ (qv)’s offensive comments about 9/11, to the fact that Wurtzel noted that the movie was “horrible.” The movie finally debuted on the Starz! network in 2005 when, following the exit of ‘Harvey Weinstein’ (qv) and ‘Bob Weinstein’ (qv) from Miramax, all pending films were released, in one form or another.
- ‘Jessica Lange’ (qv) was mentioned in the “Prozac Nation” book.
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