Imagine THE LONELY LADY (1982) without Pia Zadora and you’d have this pretentious cautionary tale, based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's self-centered memoir of better living through chemistry.
Since childhood, Elizabeth Wurtzel (Christina Ricci) has struggled to find her own identity in the midst of an ugly post-divorce fugue between her over-protective mother (Jessica Lange) and neglectful father, Donald (Nick Campbell). Psychologically crippled by her parents’ vituperative relationship, Elizabeth seeks emotional relief through self-mutilation. A promising journalist, the emotionally fragile Elizabeth heads for Harvard with a Seventeen magazine article under...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins