No one is what they seem.
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and bleak.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20178/10
We're all mad Dr. Newgate. Some are simply not mad enough to admit it. Stonehearst Asylum (AKA: Eliza Graves) is directed by Brad Anderson and adapted to screenplay by Joe Gangemi. It's loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. It stars Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jason Flemyng and Brendan Gleeson. Music is by John Debney and cinematography by Thomas Yatsko. Stonehearst Asylum - Is nothing as it seems? For his latest foray into the horror mystery realm, director Anderson provides a film that is away from conventionality's. The horror here is the blurry lines between sanity and insanity, and it has plenty of tricks and dark humour up its sleeves as well. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out quite early on what is going on at Stonehearst, the makers leave enough clues, but as the ungodly treatments show their hands, and the caustic observations on mental health and the treatment of such are made, there's a strong mystery element booming out of the screen. Naturally this is a tale full of weird, wonderful and scary characters, and with that comes equal helpings of brutality and tenderness. The key characters are ve
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Cast
- Kate BeckinsaleEliza Graves
- Jim SturgessEdward Newgate
- David ThewlisMickey Finn
- Brendan GleesonThe Alienist
- Ben KingsleySilas Lamb
- Michael CaineDr. Benjamin Salt
- Sinéad CusackMrs. Pike
- Jason FlemyngSwanwick
- Sophie Kennedy ClarkMillie
- Christopher FulfordPaxton
Crew
- Brad AndersonDirector
- Joe GangemiScreenplay
- Thomas YatskoDirector of Photography
- John DebneyOriginal Music Composer
- Brian GatesEditor
- Malcolm JamiesonEditor
- Mark AminProducer
- Bruce DaveyProducer
- Mel GibsonProducer
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