The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Discover what you are made of
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 5, 2017
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: HBO Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry & Courtney B. Vance | |
| Performer: | Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Reg E. Cathey, Reed Birney, Adriane Lenox, Roger Robinson, Rocky Carroll & Leslie Uggams | |
| Directed by | George C. Wolfe | |
| Composition by | Branford Marsalis |
Entertainment Reviews:
69%
TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 35
I want everyone to read this book. But we're going to have to pretend the movie never happened.
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The Muse/Jezebel
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will resonate with audiences as a story of major loss and finding something worthwhile to hold onto despite it.
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Black Nerd Problems
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has a vision that is as richly loving as it is clear-eyed about the racist sins that continue to dog us as a culture and a nation.
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Film Inquiry
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The stand out is Winfrey herself as the emotionally, mentally and physically ill Deborah.
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FlickDirect
Rating: 3/4 --
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a good movie with a great performance.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Henrietta Lacks achieved a kind of immortality after her death. But Skloot's book and, now, this gripping film adaptation will ensure that the world knows who she was.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Winfrey's humane and riveting performance may make this adaptation worth a watch.
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The Atlantic
Description by OLDIES.com:
Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman's search for enlightenment about her mother, whose "immortal" cells were harvested without her knowledge during a battle against cancer 60 years earlier, triggering invaluable medical breakthroughs that saved millions of lives worldwide.
- Award-winning, A-list ensemble cast includes Oscar® nominee Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne (Damages), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Tony Award for Hamilton), Reg E. Cathey (HBO's The Wire and Oz), Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story)
- Directed by George C. Wolfe (Lackawanna Blues) and Executive Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Alan Ball (True Blood, Six Feet Under), and more
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Product Info
- UPC: 883929600977
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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