I remember when Prozac Nation was released, the book but not the movie.
Actually I do not remember that it was made into a movie. Prozac Nation is based on the best-selling memoir of depression by Elizabeth Wurtzel. I found this movie to be interesting because I have seen many people like Elizabeth in my life.
Prozac Nation follows Elizabeth (Lizzie) Wurtzel (Christina Ricci), a teenager accepted to Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She had been raised by her divorced mother since she was two years old, but she misses her father, causing her to feel needy and depressed. When Lizzie enters Harvard University, she lives with a roommate, Ruby, and has her sexual initiation with her boyfriend, Noah. At Harvard she becomes obsessed with writing articles on concerts that she attends. Her article on a Lou Reed concert in The Harvard Crimson newspaper wins a Rolling Stone award. After receiving this award she starts abusing sex and drugs which lead her to existential crisis and deep depression. What follows is expensive psychiatric treatment, and, you guessed it, drug therapy.
Prozac Nation is a good but not a great movie. It does show the depths to which depressive can fall. I recommend Prozac Nation.