Prozac Nation

The movie is an account of a girl off to a promising start with a scholarship to study writing at Harvard where she decides to start a music column in the student paper. This leads to a boost in the form of an award from 'Rolling Stone' magazine for 'Most promising student writer'. Between the excitement of her early success at writing and the freedom afforded by campus life she finds herself overcome by her need to work and her desire to be free of responsibilities, particularly those stemming from her family life.

The treatment of the issues is somewhat flat and critical acclaim was not substantial but with a few cameos by Lou Reed whose song 'Kill Your Sons' vaguely touches the same issues as does his own life at that age except Lou got shock treatment in the days before Prozac. The footage of him doing 'Sweet Jane' and 'Perfect Day' makes the film more attractive to the afficianadoes of the New York underground. At a budget of $9mil it probably wasn't a bad investment for the investors and the statements it makes on the nature of psychiatry and medication are important.