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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
Directed by George C. Wolfe
“Discover what you are made of”
Drama, History, TV Movie · 1h 33m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- George C. Wolfe
- Screenplay
- George C. Wolfe, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo
- Director of Photography
- Sofian El Fani
- Original Music Composer
- Branford Marsalis
- Editor
- Aaron Yanes
- Producer
- Kathryn Dean
Details
- Release date
- 2017-04-22
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Harpo Films, Cine Mosaic, HBO Films