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The Mad Whale (2017)

| Drama, Thriller | 19 October 2017 (USA)
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Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'

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Sonia A. Guggenheim (as Sonia Guggenheim), David Breschel | 7 more credits »

Writers:

Michael Herman (screenplay by), Colleen O'Halloran | 7 more credits »

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James Franco, Camilla Belle, Summer Phoenix | See full cast & crew »
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Credited cast:
James Franco
Camilla Belle ... Isabel Wallace
Summer Phoenix ... Beatrice Price
Michael Weston ... Tobias
Dominic Rains ... Dr. Benjamin Calhoun
Carmen Argenziano ... Dr. Withers
Kai Lennox ... The Chairman
Alan Bagh ... John / Orderly
Alison Lees-Taylor ... Mary
Lauren Elyse Buckley ... Mental Asylum Inmate
Deneen Melody ... Asylum Dancer
Siena Oberman ... Theater-Goer
Summer Moore ... Insane Patient
Tweed Michael Manning ... Orderly
Vince Jolivette ... Board Member
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The film takes place in the late nineteenth century. Benjamin Calhoun is a doctor at a psychiatric clinic who observes that standard treatments do not help his patients. Ice therapy, leeches and isolation do not give a positive result, and he decides to come up with a new way to help the sick. So the doctor begins staging the play "Moby Dick" in the women's department. One of the roles is received by his patient Isabelle Wallace. She is the wife of a senior official and claims to be completely healthy. According to the woman, she is in this medical institution on the orders of her husband. Written by Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)

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English

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Mesmerizing
2 October 2019 | by rmbbsnrn – See all my reviews

An outstanding movie that you cannot pull yourself away from, so get your soda & snacks before you start. I loved it so much I watched it twice, in the same night.
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