The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

201793 min
β˜…6.4/10
DramaTV Movie

Plot Summary

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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πŸ‘₯Cast (42)

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne

Rebecca Skloot

RenΓ©e Elise Goldsberry

RenΓ©e Elise Goldsberry

Henrietta Lacks

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Deborah Lacks

Ninja N. Devoe

Ninja N. Devoe

Country Girl Mae

Lisa Arrindell

Lisa Arrindell

Aunt Ethel

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Earl Poitier

Cousin Josh

L. Warren Young

L. Warren Young

Day Lacks

Patrick Walker

Patrick Walker

Cousin Fred

Jane Rumbaua

Jane Rumbaua

Mrs. Hsu

Sylvia Grace Crim

Sylvia Grace Crim

Mary Kubicek

Tian Richards

Tian Richards

Lawrence (16 yrs.)

Kate Bond

Kate Bond

Young Woman

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Director

George C. Wolfe

Writers

George C. Wolfe, Alexander Woo

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🏷️Keywords

medical researchmedical drama

πŸ’¬Reviews (1)

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Reno

2/4/2018

**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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