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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019) is streaming on Amazon Prime. Also available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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.
Ricci transforms into a fearless journalist who feigns madness to expose the horrors of a nineteenth-century asylum. This tense historical dramatization captures the chilling reality of institutional abuse through a single woman's undercover crusade.
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Karen Moncrieff
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Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Joshua Bowman, Anja Savcic, Nikki Duval, Lauren Cochrane, Johise Namwira, Kathleen Gallagher, Mark Hildreth, Paul Essiembre
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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
You can watch Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
Director
Karen Moncrieff
Cast
Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Joshua Bowman, Anja Savcic, Nikki Duval, Lauren Cochrane, Johise Namwira, Kathleen Gallagher, Mark Hildreth, Paul Essiembre
8 options ranked by value · 🇺🇸 United States
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