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2017 • Drama / History • 93m

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Rose Byrne
Rose Byrne
Rebecca Skloot
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
Reg E. Cathey
Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams
Sadie
Reed Birney
Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
John Douglas Thompson
John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
Adriane Lenox
Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
John Beasley
John Beasley
Cliff
Peter Gerety
Peter Gerety
Paul Lurz
Gabriel Ebert
Gabriel Ebert
Christoph Lengauer
John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey
Bill Watson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dr. Roland Pattillo
Byron Jennings
Byron Jennings
Dr. Victor McKusick
Sylvia Grace Crim
Sylvia Grace Crim
Mary Kubicek
Director: George C. WolfeScreenplay: George C. WolfeScreenplay: Peter LandesmanExecutive Producer: Alan BallExecutive Producer: Lydia Dean PilcherProducer: Kathryn DeanExecutive Producer: Carla GardiniExecutive Producer: Peter Macdissi

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Reno
2018-02-04
60%

**You will know everything, but Henrietta Lacks!** It's a good biographical drama, but the only problem is its not what exactly the title says. If you believed to learn about Henrietta Lacks and went to see it, you might end disappointingly. Because she was the only topic of the story, not the actual story, except a few glimpses. It is like you watched 'Infamous' or 'Capote', instead of 'In Cold Blood'. That's what like this film. Yet not a bad film. A writer pursuing the family members of a person who lived in the mid 20th century, because she was a medical phenomenon. Her cells used to treat cancer, despite she had died of cancer, leaving her young kids behind. Her descendants not aware of how things work in the medical research, only misguided by others, finally, set to discover the truth themselves about all the fuss. It was nominated for the Emmy, but did not win. Oprah was okay, but Rose Byrne impressed me. Except a misleading title, it is a good film, but I really wanted/want to know the Henrietta Lacks. That's funny, because they have told us an unnecessary story. I hope somebody would make a film about actual Henrietta Lacks! _5.5/10_

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Status
Released
Origin
US
Languages
English
Studios
Harpo Films, Cine Mosaic, HBO Films
Website
http://www.hbo.com/movies/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks

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