Boy Interrupted
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| Directed by | Dana Perry |
| Cinematography | Hart Perry |
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Perry Films
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| Distributed by | HBO Films |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Boy Interrupted is a 2009 documentary feature film about the suicide in 2005 of Evan Perry, a 15-year-old boy from New York. The title references the best-selling memoir Girl, Interrupted, also about mental illness.
Perry came from a family with a history of mental illness; his uncle had committed suicide at age 21. Evan had been diagnosed with depression and prescribed Prozac, then rediagnosed with bipolar depression and prescribed mood stabilizers, namely Lithium, and later received milieu therapy, which brought relief for a time. However, at age 15, he jumped to his death from his family's apartment window.
The film was made by the boy's parents, director Dana Perry and cinematographer Hart Perry. It was made for HBO Documentary Films, being shown on TV and released on DVD. It was also shown at Sundance in January 2009.
Variety noted that because of his parents' occupations, they did a good job in recording his life, and produced an "elegiac little gem". The Philadelphia Inquirer called it a "remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary", scoring it 3/4 stars.The Movie Blog criticised the production quality, but found that the film still "communicated effectively and with a lot of emotion".SI Live suggested that the boy's story perhaps did not merit a documentary, but it was "valuable viewing" in that it would educate people a little about mental illness.
Rotten Tomatoes records three positive reviews and no negative.
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