Feature2017·93m·6.3

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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Cast

Oprah Winfrey

Deborah Lacks

Rose Byrne

Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Henrietta Lacks

Reg E. Cathey

Zakariyyah

Courtney B. Vance

Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Rocky Carroll

Sonny Lacks

Leslie Uggams

Sadie

Reed Birney

Dr. George Gey

John Douglas Thompson

Lawrence Lacks

Adriane Lenox

Barbara Lacks

Roger Robinson

Day Lacks

John Beasley

Cliff

Peter Gerety

Paul Lurz

Gabriel Ebert

Christoph Lengauer

John Benjamin Hickey

Bill Watson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Dr. Roland Pattillo

Byron Jennings

Dr. Victor McKusick

Sylvia Grace Crim

Mary Kubicek

Karen Wheeling Reynolds

Mrs. Gey

John C. Vennema

Board Administrator

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Harpo FilmsCine MosaicHBO Films

Crew

Director

George C. Wolfe

Writers

Rebecca Skloot, George C. Wolfe, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo

Aaron Yanes

Editor

Caroline Hanania

Production Design

Paul Tazewell

Costume Design

Sofian El Fani

Director of Photography

Branford Marsalis

Original Music Composer

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Reviews

Reno

2/4/2018

6.0

**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_