Asylum Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Stella Raphael, a cultured and elegant but restless young woman, lives with her husband, Max, a forensic psychiatrist, and their small son, Charlie, at a high-security mental hospital in rural England. Isolated from the urban excitement she craves, Stella is unhappy with her husband and her life, and when she comes into contact with the brilliant and attractive sculptor Edgar Stark, a patient who is engaged in rebuilding the asylum's decrepit Victorian conservatory, she begins to fall in love. Her discovery that Edgar was confined to the hospital after he brutally murdered and disfigured his wife in a psychotic, jealous rage fails to deter Stella from her growing passion, and eventually her love for Edgar is pitted against her husband, her child, the institution, and the entire fabric of her society. Finally Stella makes her choice, precipitating an appalling tragedy and changing the course of several lives.

Drama Romance Suspense Thriller

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Asylum.

• I
  Ian McKellen

  Beauty and the Beast, Doogal

• N
  Natasha Richardson

  Evening, The White Countess

• H
  Hugh Bonneville

  Paddington in Peru, Downton Abbey 3

• M
  Marton Csokas

  Man with No Past, Sleeping Dogs

• S
  Sean Harris

  The King, Prometheus

• A
  Amy Horton

• R
  Rhydian Jones

• P
  Peter Yates

Crew Behind the Film

The Asylum behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director David MacKenzie last directed Outlaw King and Hell or High Water. The film's writer Patrick Marber last wrote The Critic and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Director

David MacKenzie

Screenwriter

Patrick Marber

Producers

David E. Allen
Mace Neufeld

Production Details

What we know about the Asylum movie production.

Production Updates for Asylum

Dec 2004

Completed

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