There are irregularities everywhere we go. Our best institutions are often found guilty of negligence. If the sane can look the other way and allow negligence, who will protect those who need our attention. Escaping the Madhouse movie on Lifetime Channel brings a fisctionalized account of a long sting operation that exposed the pathetic conditions at an asylum.
Escaping the Madhouse Cast
Helen Childress adapts the real-life story of the expose. Nellie Bly’s expose was the first of its kind in America and inspired the global reformation of mental health care.
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
Directed By: Karen Moncrieff
Cast: Christina Ricci, Judith Light and Josh Bowman
Network: Lifetime Channel
Air Date: January 19 2019 8 PM ET/PT
Escaping the Madhouse Story
Escaping the Madhouse movie follows Nellie Bly as she goes undercover to expose the pathetic condition of the mentally ill at a woman’s asylum.
Investigative reporter Nellie Bly (Ricci) feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. We meet Nellie beginning after Nellie has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.
Nellie’s unwillingness to submit to authority results in unspeakable torture at the hands of the head nurse, Matron Grady (Light). When Nellie captures the attention of Dr. Josiah (Bowman) who tries to help her, Grady’s barbaric tactics only intensify, leading Nellie to questions if she actually does belong in the asylum after all.
Escaping the Madhouse Trailer
Watch this trailer of the intense account of Nellie at the asylum and tell us if like the depiction of the conditions at the asylum.
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