Jolie (''Gia'') also wanted to make the film, and begged for the part of Kaysen's ward mate: ''I'd read the book years before and had underlined most of my character,'' she says. ''I loved her [and] identified with her.'' The actors filmed the movie in a Harrisburg, Pa., mental institution and behaved accordingly. ''I thought it would be a very dark time for me, and in some ways it was,'' says Jolie, ''but I lived completely on impulse. If I wanted to kiss someone, I did, and if I wanted to throw something, I could.''
Says Mangold: ''Being on the set with mostly women was no different than my other features, except that Whoopi Goldberg [who plays Nurse Valerie] was constantly in search of the alpha female who would pull them into menstrual alignment.'' Which explains why she's the center square. BUZZ FACTOR: 6
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