Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- asylum
- lunatic asylum
- based on true story
- murder
- memory loss
- torture
- abuse
- mistreatment
- investigative reporter
- female reporter
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Nikki Duval — Nurse Fenton
- Lauren Cochrane — Nurse Lila
- Johise Namwira — Johari
- Kathleen Gallagher — Black-haired Crazy Patient
- Mark Hildreth — Bats
- Paul Essiembre — Joseph Pulitzer
- Directed
- Karen Moncrieff
- Written
- Helen Childress
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 140 ratings
- Studio
- Lifetime
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
