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Breakthrough (2019)
Directed by Bill Haney
Documentary · 1h 30m
Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.
Cast
Woody Harrelson
Crew
- Director
- Bill Haney
- Screenplay
- Bill Haney
- Editor
- Peter Rhodes
- Producer
- Jennifer Pearce
Details
- Release date
- 2019-03-09
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Uncommon Productions