Angelina Jolie critic Peter Stack wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." She won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review. In 1999, Jolie starred in the comedy-drama "Pushing Tin", alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film met with mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized; writing for "The Washington Post", Desson Howe dismissed her as "a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of
Angelina Jolie filmography Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Film. She made her breakthrough the following year in HBO's television film "Gia" (1998). For her performance in the title role of fashion model Gia Carangi, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Film. Jolie's first role in 1999 was in "Pushing Tin", a critical and commercial failure; however, her next film, "The Bone Collector", emerged as a commercial success. In the 1999 drama "Girl, Interrupted", Jolie played a sociopathic mental patient, a role which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting