2019 · thriller · tv-movie
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
Directed by Karen Moncrieff1h 28m2019
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.
Our read: Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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