Thursday December 2, 6:05 pm Eastern Time

Company Press Release

The World Premiere of Columbia Pictures' ``Girl, Interrupted''

WHEN:   Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1999
        7:30 p.m.

WHERE:  Cinerama Dome, 6360 Sunset Blvd.

        Party immediately following the screening at:
        The Sunset Room
        1430 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood

WHO:

Attending from the film:

Winona Ryder      Joanna Kerns                Douglas Wick (producer)
Angelina Jolie    Mary Kay Place              Carol Bodie (exec prod)
Brittany Murphy   Travis Fine                 Susanna Kaysen
Clea Duvall       Jillian Armenante           Lisa Loomer (scrnply)
Elisabeth Moss    James Mangold (dir/scrnply)
Jared Leto        Cathy Konrad (producer)
                  Anna Hamilton Phelan (scrnply)

Other celebrities expected to attend include:

Casey Affleck                         Rachel Leigh Cook
Tiffani Amber-Thiessen                Courteney Cox
David Arquette                        Marisa Coughlan ("Wasteland")
Rosanna Arquette                      Wes Craven
Hank Azaria                           Matt Damon
Emily Bergl ("The Rage: Carrie 2")    Shannen Doherty
Jake Busey                            Kirsten Dunst
Jessica Capshaw ("The Love Letter")   Vivica A. Fox
China Chow                            Sara Gilbert

Adam Goldberg                         Julian McMahon ("The Profiler")
Alyson Hannigan                       Emily Mortimer ("Scream 3")
Lauren Holly                          Alessandro Nivola ("Face/Off")
Jonathan Jackson                      Robert Patrick
Diane Keaton                          Antonio Sabato Jr.
Jamie Kennedy                         Leelee Sobieski
Matthew Lillard                       Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Ray Liotta                            Greg Vaughan (Cincinnati Reds)
Natasha Lyonne                        Jon Voight
Penny Marshall                        Paul Walker ("Varsity Blues")
                                      Owen Wilson

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, ``Girl, Interrupted'' is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (two-time Oscar® nominee Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution in a ward for troubled young women.

Based on the best-selling book of the same name and directed by celebrated ``Cop Land'' director James Mangold, ``Girl, Interrupted'' features tour de force performances by today's most critically acclaimed young actors, including Ryder and Angelina Jolie (Golden Globe winner for ``Gia'' and ``George Wallace'').

The film also stars Jared Leto, Brittany Murphy and Clea DuVall, as well as Oscar® winners Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave.

Kaysen's prescribed ``short rest'' from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she spends nearly a year on the ward both flirting and struggling with the thin line between normal and crazy.

Kaysen soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she's been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong on the inside -- like the seductive and dangerous Lisa (Jolie) -- or the often difficult world of reality on the outside.

``Girl, Interrupted'' questions the boundaries of freedom and confinement, friendship and betrayal, and madness and sanity at a time when it seemed the whole world might be going crazy.

``Girl, Interrupted'' opens Dec. 21 (limited) and Jan. 14 (wide)

Columbia Pictures
Liz Biber, 310/244-4446 (broadcast/photographers)
liz_biber@spe.sony.com
Kira Feola, 310/244-1418 (print/online)
kira_feola@spe.sony.com
Eden Rosenfelt, 310/244-7804 (print)
eden_rosenfelt@spe.sony.com
Jasmin Chavez, 310/244-2190 (international)
jasmin_chavez@spe.sony.com