The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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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.

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Cast: Chasiti Ferrell, Chelsea Ferrell, John C. Vennema, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, Oprah Winfrey, Reed Birney, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Rose Byrne, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Sylvia Grace Crim

Director: George C. Wolfe

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Country: USA

Release Year: 2017

IMDB Rating: 6.4 (4211 votes)

TMDB Rating: 6.3 (95 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes: 69

Metacritic: 64

Runtime: 1h 33m

Release Date: 2017-04-22

Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy, 4 wins & 19 nominations total

Tagline: Discover what you are made of