Winona, Interrupted
How very! Charting the spectacular rise, fall and comeback story of era-defining star and Generation X icon Winona Ryder, from Heathers and Beetlejuice to Black Swan and Stranger Things. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Winona Ryder appeared in several acclaimed and zeitgeist-grabbing films, including Edward Scissorhands, Little Women and Reality Bites, but being so closely associated with a specific cultural moment made it hard for her to stay in the spotlight into the 2000s. However, this has proved to be a blessing as well as a curse, as a wave of nostalgia for the 1980s has since brought Winona back onto our screens where she rightly belongs, introducing a whole new generation to her unique talents.
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