

Drama · History
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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Top 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
Directed by
George C. Wolfe
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Reno
6/102/4/2018
**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 t
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