4.2
Vishudhan
2013
“Discover what you are made of”
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
April 22, 20171h 33mEN
6.4
109 votes
Overview
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.
Director
George C. WolfeWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
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Production Companies
Harpo FilmsCine MosaicHBO Films
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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…
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