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.
Acting
Christina Ricci's unhinged desperation will haunt your dreams.
Production
The asylum itself is a suffocating character—grimy, cramped, inescapable.
Director
Karen Moncrieff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Nellie Bly's 1887 exposé 'Ten Days in a Mad-House' for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World remains a landmark of investigative journalism.
Director Karen Moncrieff specifically cast Judith Light as Matron Grady to subvert her warm maternal TV image into something chillingly bureaucratic.
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