The film is based on the best-selling novel and real events that took place before the antidepressants became popular in the mid-1980s. Describes a teenage woman, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Woodsellreceives a journalism scholarship to attend Harvard University. Raised by her divorced mother, Mrs. Wurtzel, since she was 2 years old , she misses her father and feels poor and depressed from a working-class family. During her first year of college, she lives with a roommate, Ruby, and is sexually enlightened with Noah Her article in the Crimson newspaper local column was honored by Rolling stone . Until Lizzie turns into sex and substance abuse while dating Rafe, her existential crisis and increased depression hurt friends who love her and her mother. Mrs Wurtzel sends her to Dr. Stirlingfor expensive psychiatric treatment, despite having trouble paying for her medicine and psychotherapy. After a long battle with antidepressants and suicide attempts, Lizzie's condition stabilized and adjusted to the real world on her path to becoming a successful journalist.
Prozac Nation movie plot
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[Elizabeth has gone to visit her boyfriend Rafe, despite him insisting that he wants to be alone with his family, and has discovered that he has a severely mentally disabled sister]
Elizabeth: You get off on this.
Rafe: What?
Elizabeth: This does it for you.
[Rafe is very shocked]
Rafe: What are you talking about?
Elizabeth: You hid her from me. Don't you think there's a reason for that? Don't you think that tells me something?
Rafe: Oh, Christ.
Elizabeth: You're some kind of creepy voyeur. You like other people's misery.
Rafe: You're sick. You really are... You're really sick.
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Mrs. Wurtzel: I kill myself to get you to Harvard and you come back looking like a zombie!