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Winona Ryder up album Xtra-Acme USA, which was made using a screenshot from the previously mentioned music video. In 1999, she performed in and served as an executive producer for "Girl, Interrupted", based on the 1993 autobiography of Susanna Kaysen. The film had been in production and post-production since late 1996, but it took time to surface. Ryder was deeply attached to the film, considering it her "child of the heart." Ryder starred as Kaysen, who has borderline personality disorder and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for recovery. Starring alongside Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg, Ryder was expecting to make her