

They locked a movie star in an asylum and threw away the key. Hollywood's darkest secret.
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Acting
Susan Blakely's descent is physically devastating to watch.
Direction
Cook's asylum sequences feel genuinely suffocating.
Writing
The mother-daughter dialogue cuts deeper than the restraints.

Director
Fielder Cook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jessica Lange played Farmer the same year in 'Frances'—two competing biopics, two very different women, one tragic life.
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