Asylum
Release date: April 25, 2005 More »
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast:
- Natasha Richardson as Stella Raphael
- Hugh Bonneville as Max Raphael
- Gus Lewis as Charlie Raphael
- Ian McKellen as Dr. Peter Cleave
- Joss Ackland as Jack Straffen
- Wanda Ventham as Bridie Straffen
- Sara Thurston as Mrs. Rose (as Sarah Thurstan)
- Alwyne Taylor as Monica
- Maria Aitken as Claudia Greene
- Hazel Douglas as Lilly
- Anna Keaveney as Mrs. Bain
- Marton Csokas as Edgar Stark
- Robert Willox as John Archer Show All »
About:
Set at a maximum security psychiatric asylum outside London in the summer of 1959, this is the story of the wife, Stella (Richardson), of a psychiatrist who has recently moved there with her husband, Max (Bonneville), who is the new superintendent. We see their story unfold through the eyes of Dr. Peter Cleave (McKellen), one of the institute's psychiatrists. Stella soon finds herself falling in love with one of the asylum's patients, Edgar Stark (Csokas), a talented sculptor convicted of the disfigurement and murder of his own wife, who is working on the restoration of the asylum's dilapidated Victorian Era conservatory, which is right behind Stella and Max's house.
Producer: David E. Allen, Michael Barlow, Laurie Borg, John Buchanan, David Collins, Chris Curling, Baron Davis, Harmon Kaslow, Steve Markoff, Bruce McNall, Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme, Natasha Richardson
Writers: Patrick McGrath, Patrick Marber, Chrysanthy Balis
