The read
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes52%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
1,646 audience votes
Key crew
- Brad AndersonDirector
- Joe GangemiScreenplay
- John DebneyOriginal Music Composer
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
- Guillaume DelaunayArthur Timbs
- Edmund KingsleyCharles Graves
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Themes
mental institutionpsychological thrillerdoctormental patientbased on short storymental asylumdoctor patient relationship19th centuryswitching places