Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
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Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Joshua Bowman, Anja Savcic, Nikki Duval, Lauren Cochrane, Johise Namwira, Kathleen Gallagher, Mark Hildreth, Paul Essiembre
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
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Helen Childress
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Mario Grigorov
Artist
Taavo Soodor
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John Gurdebeke
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Whole Team (9)
Short description
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.
What's left behind the scenes
- Blackwell's Island was renamed Roosevelt Island in 1973.
- The film is based on the book “Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Narrative of My Life in an Asylum,” published in 1887. Bly (1864-1922), at the request of editor Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), feigned mental illness and deceived several doctors, after which she spent 10 days in an asylum and then published an exposé about the appalling conditions, the abuse of staff, and the fact that some patients had been admitted there clearly by mistake.
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