CAC Book Club
Girl, Interrupted
Screening and discussion on:
Monday, December 14th at 7:30 PM
$18 Public | $11 Members

Join us for the latest event of our new CAC Book Club where we'll be examining exciting works of literature and their film counterparts. Read the book prior to the event then join us for a film screening and discussion to reflect on characters, storylines and the central themes that drive the story’s impact across the two mediums. Come share your ideas and viewpoint in this engaging conversation with our community.

The next program will take place on Monday, December 14th. Prior to the screening, we will read Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, and then watch James Mangold’s Academy Award-winning film adaptation, followed by a discussion of both. Two-time Oscar-nominee Winona Ryder stars in the fascinating true story of a young woman's life-altering stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the turbulent late 1960's. Questionably diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Susanna (Ryder) rebels against the head nurse (Whoopi Goldberg) and top psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave), choosing instead to befriend the resident "loonies", a group of troubled women including the seductively charismatic sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie). But Susanna quickly learns if she wants her freedom, she'll have to face the person who terrifies her the most of all: herself. (USA, Germany, 2000, 127 mins, R, English | Dir. James Mangold)

Our facilitator, Alyssa Ratledge, is a Huntington resident who loves novels, cinema, and understanding how the narratives we tell shape our views of the world. You'll never see her out in the village without a book in her bag. In her day job, she is a social scientist running research studies in community colleges.