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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) | Official Trailer | HBO
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

Peter Gerety
Paul Lurz

Gabriel Ebert
Christoph Lengauer

John Benjamin Hickey
Bill Watson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dr. Roland Pattillo

Byron Jennings
Dr. Victor McKusick

Sylvia Grace Crim
Mary Kubicek

Karen Wheeling Reynolds
Mrs. Gey

John C. Vennema
Board Administrator
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Reviews
Reno
**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 the truth themselves about all the fuss.
It was nominated for the Emmy, but did not win. Oprah was okay, but Rose Byrne impressed me. Except a misleading title, it is a good film, but I really wanted/want to know the Henrietta Lacks. That's funny, because they have told us an unnecessary story. I hope somebody would make a film about actual Henrietta Lacks!
_5.5/10_
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