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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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

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★ 6.3/10 April 22, 2017 93 min

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Director: George C. Wolfe  ·  Writers: George C. Wolfe, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo

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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George C. Wolfe George C. Wolfe

Cast

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

User Reviews (1)

Reno
Reno February 4, 2018
★ 6/10

**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…