She recommends
several titles: Ned Vizzini's «It's
Kind of a Funny Story» portrays Craig, a teenager with depression at the hands
of academic
stress, who spends times in a psychiatric ward.
2 (Grade: B): This
kinder, gentler second half (not a sequel, the producers
stress)
of Quentin Tarantino's epic vengeance saga has its heroine (Uma Thurman) buried alive, training with a kung fu master (Gordon Liu), battling
several villains (Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah) for re-possession
of her samurai sword and trying to work out her relationship problems with Bill (David Carradine) in an anti-climactic series
of rather static dialogue scenes.