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10 Days in a Madhouse

Christopher Lambert (Actor), Caroline Barry (Actor), Timothy Hines (Director) Rated:

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In 1887, at age 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island a woman's insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches; 2.4 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43480102
Director ‏ : ‎ Timothy Hines
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 51 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2017
Actors ‏ : ‎ Christopher Lambert, Caroline Barry, Kelly LeBrock
Studio ‏ : ‎ Broadgreen
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MXZ1C4U
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Conig

A Woman Before Her Time

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

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The true story of Nellie Bly's experience in the madhouse is amazing. To think of it occurring in 1897 when women had no rights is hard to believe. I strongly encourage all women to read the book. Her life impacted on all women from 1900s to today.

The film (Amazon Prime) is disappointing & I agree with other commenters that it deserved a bigger budget and needed to be true to the book.

As a nurse, I think it would help the viewers and readers to know that it wasn't until 1913 that psychiatric nursing was added to the curriculum at one college. The first psychiatric nursing textbook, Nursing Mental Diseases by Harriet Bailey, was not published until 1920. Before Florence Nightingale's reformation of nursing, "nurses" had no training. Most of them were prostitutes and other street people. Cheap labor for hard, long hours, but provided a bed and food. Better than living on the street or in a brothel.

This was probably the case in the asylum in 1897.

BTW, the $1 million awarded by NY for improved mental health care is equal to $24,785,600.85 in today's currency.

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W. Maughan

Give It A Chance, It Does Tell The Story

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018

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Initially, I made it just a few minutes into the movie then turned it off because I didn't like the acting, and thought the actress was rather miscast. Nellie Bly was tough, and Caroline Barry just isn't. Also,the opening scene seemed gratuitously gross. But I'm interested in Nelly Bly's story, so I went back to see how they told it.

The movie got better. I think it was done with passion and care, but less resources than an American audience is used to. Some of the costumes seemed odd (were shiny dresses in style back then?), but the set was convincing. Once the story got rolling, they did a good job telling it. The Superintendent is decently done, a well cast, complicated character that makes the movie. I found myself watching to see what happened with him. And I loved to hate a couple of the nurses, though they were acted woodenly. I thought some of the performances were effective, and even got used to Caroline Barry as Nellie Bly. The movie definitely conveys the feel of the oppression women were experiencing at that time, and that made some of the moments in this movie Art, in my book. So, if you want to know more about Nellie Bly, or the history of Women's rights or the history of mental health care, give this film a chance. Skip the first scene, though. Oh, and turn it off before they start to play the song at the end. The ending song is truly terrible.

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Mariano Talavera Jr.

FACTS ABOUT PSYCHIATRY...

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020

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While posing as “authorities” on the mind and mental health, psychiatry has no scientific basis for any of its treatments or methods.

Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people can’t experience emotional or mental duress, but psychiatry has repackaged these emotions and behaviors as “disease” in order to sell drugs. This is a brilliant marketing campaign, but it is not science.

“There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed…then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease.” —Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse

“If we are to consider mental disease to be like physical disease, we ought to have biochemical or pathological evidence.” And if an “illness” is to be “scientifically meaningful, it must somehow be capable of being approached, measured or tested in a scientific fashion, as through a blood test or an electroencephalograph [recording of brain electrical activity]. If it cannot be so measured—as is the case [with]…‘mental illness’—then the phrase ‘illness’ is at best a metaphor and at worst a myth, and that therefore ‘treating’ these ‘illnesses’ is an equally…unscientific enterprise.” —Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse

“No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, [{(-Schizophrenia-)}], anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.” —Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion

“Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV are terms arrived at through peer consensus.” —Tana Dineen Ph.D., Canadian psychologist

“In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an [{(-Extended Racket-)}] furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.” —Dr. Thomas Dorman, internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada

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Bill

Buy it, now.

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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Apart from the PBS program: 'American Experience' with its brief one-hour synopsis of her lifetime achievements, this is the best re-enactment of Elizabeth Jane Cochran[e] Seaman's articles published in Pulitzer's 'New York World'.
The movie not only covers the horrid conditions and practices that were allowed to exist during the late 19th century within the Women's Section on Blackwell Island; it also introduces the audience to Nellie Bly's first-of-a-kind, courageous, investigative reporting. Plus, the film makers created a fine display of Seaman's next step from her roots at the 'Pittsburg (sic) Dispatch' toward a budding, multi-faceted career.
The video, likewise, succinctly gives viewers a taste of humanities' extremes of dispassionate and empathic ways.
The fine art critic's reviews may scoff and deride the acting, direction, staging, et al; however, I challenge them to rise from their arm chairs and compete with it on such a low-budget as this depiction most likely had.
Therefore, as an appreciative and, albeit, self-proclaimed aficionado, I applaud this addition to my personal library.

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spannend, gute Darsteller

Reviewed in Germany on August 21, 2017

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Anfangs etwas zäh aber es wird spannend und sehr realistisch, der Willkür ist Tür und Tor geöffnet und entspricht sicher auch den realen Zuständen der damaligen Zeit. Mutig von einer Frau als pat getarnt in eine Institution solcher Art eingeschleust zu werden und sich in einer Männer dominierten Gesellschaft durchsetzen zu wollen. Zu empfehlen wenn jemanden diese Themen interessieren, nichts für Krimifans oder Horrofreaks, da beide Genre kaum enthalten sind.

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Kelle

Reviewed in Germany on January 22, 2020

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This Movie Should Be Locked Away in an Institution!

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2017

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One of the worst movies I have purchased. The script is terrible and the acting is even worse! Too bad, because Nellie Bly's actual story is so compelling.

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