State Home For Manic Pixie Dream Girls

Hide your floral headbands and your carefully-curated mix CDs: you, too, can be institutionalized.

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FBNss2PMj60.

What is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl? The term was coined by film critic Nathan Rabin, who described one as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.” Examples include Natalie Portman’s character in “Garden State,” Kate Hudson’s groupie in “Almost Famous,” Kirsten Dunst in “Elizabethtown,” and Zooey Deschanel in “500 Days of Summer,” and in actual life.