Prozac Nation (2005)

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (18) | DVD (23)

The self-centered brat at the center of Prozac Nation spends most of her time making life miserable for everyone around her, but there's little reason the public should have to pay for the same privilege.

January 5, 2007 Full Review

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

Ninety-eight minutes of this movie and you may find yourself reaching for Prozac or the antidepressant of your choice. A cheap shot, to be sure, but the movie earns it.

March 4, 2005

Robert Denerstein

Denver Rocky Mountain News

Top Critic

Truly depressing, a dark, mean and screechy film that still looks half-finished after years on the shelf.

March 4, 2005 Full Review

Michael Booth

Denver Post

Top Critic

In portraying Elizabeth Wurtzel, Ricci displays range, depth, and courage.

March 11, 2003 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

[Ricci's] performance as a Harvard undergrad battling clinical depression compels your attention every moment she is on screen.

September 12, 2001

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

It should be no surprise that a flick about depressives turns into a depressing film.

May 29, 2010 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Ricci commits fully, driven to bring Wurtzel's demons to life.

September 22, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Prozak Nation is a manipulative, cloying take on depression, a watered down film from a watered down book.

June 21, 2007 Full Review

Jason Gorber

Film Scouts

There's really no reservoir of sympathy deep enough to support a whiny, navel-gazing Harvard student who turns her depression into a show-stopping spectacle.

January 5, 2007 Full Review

Scott Tobias

AV Club

The film avoids disease-of-the-week sentimentality with Ricci's calm, reasoning voice-over juxtaposing her erratic behavior; she realizes what she's doing but just can't stop.

May 26, 2006 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Outside of Ricci, everything's been sucked out to a bland finish.

September 28, 2005 Full Review

Rory L. Aronsky

Film Threat

it seems that Elizabeth's problem isn't that she's clinically depressed. It's because she's a first class a-hole. (That's a scientific term)

September 2, 2005 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

What the hell happened to Christina Ricci?

July 18, 2005 Full Review

Jonathan Moy

CinemaBlend.com

Poor Ricci, stuck in the role of the egotistical unlikeable young woman, tries her hardest to appear miserable.

July 8, 2005 Full Review

Marcy Dermansky

About.com

It doesn't matter that the story is true; if it's uninteresting or unappealing, it isn't going to work.

July 7, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Prozac Nation moves along at the speed of a Norwegian glacier, yet it provides the observer with nowhere near the pleasure.

July 7, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

A tough book to adapt into a movie...

July 6, 2005 Full Review

Tony Whitt

Now Playing Magazine

well-made, but almost relentlessly downbeat portrait of self-destruction -- it makes Winona Ryder's similar 'Girl, Interrupted' look like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'

July 1, 2005 Full Review

James Sanford

Kalamazoo Gazette

Choose the lesser of two evils: Make Tom Cruise proud and medicate yourself with Prozac Nation and not the actual pill.

June 28, 2005 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

despite low expectations, you press on, hoping for something interesting to happen

May 5, 2005 Full Review

Jesse Hassenger

Filmcritic.com

• 1. Elizabeth Wurtzel: I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever.
  – Submitted by Hriya M (39 days ago)
• 1. Elizabeth Wurtzel: Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, 'Gradually, then suddenly.' That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (5 months ago)
• 1. Elizabeth Wurtzel: Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (5 months ago)
• 1. Ruby: Lizzy, I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (5 months ago)
• 1. Elizabeth Wurtzel: [to herself] Ruby get's it she get's me. If she were guy everything would be perfect.
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (7 months ago)
• 1. Elizabeth Wurtzel: [to Ruby] We'll be like this beautiful literary freaks. Being brilliant, and dark. Sexy. [both laugh] [to herself] Trouble is, I'm deadly serious .
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (7 months ago)

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