Ok I know you all watched it to see Christina Rici naked!

One of Sweet Wednesday Adams (Christina Ricci’s) better works; not that she has really made a dud movie now that I think about it (she did worry me a bit in Monster though!), but Prozac Nation is probably some of her best work.

What is immediately striking about the film is the level of authenticity the director has sought in representing bipolar illness. Unlike other films directly on the subject like Mr Jones, Prozac Nation keeps the Hollywood drama to a minimum with little in the way of huge dramatic events; just the little debilitating things that make life almost impossible to bear for its many sufferers.

If you know someone with a depressive illness or bipolar you should watch this film, watch it even if you don’t to see a brilliant performance from Ricci and a film that asks awkward questions about the American lack-of-health-care-system (hopefully of old if Obama does his thing) and why exactly so many people are depressed and taking antidepressants in our culture.