THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS (DIGITAL HD)

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• Release Year: 2017
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name. Told through the eyes of Henrietta Lacks' daughter Deborah Lacks (Winfrey), the film chronicles her search - along with journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne) - to learn about the mother she never knew and understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives an the days of medicine forever.
• Cast: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, John C. Vennema, Chasiti Ferrell, Chelsea Ferrell, Rose Byrne, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Oprah Winfrey, Jaedon Godley, Rocky Carroll, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Robinson, Adriane Lenox, Kyanna Simone, Jane Rumbaua, Byron Jennings, Jaylon Gordon, Reg E. Cathey, Leslie Uggams, Leon Lamar, John Beasley, Andrea Frye, Jazzy Ellis, Tinashe Kajese, Patrick R. Walker, L. Warren Young, John Benjamin Hickey, Ellen Barkin, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Gaston, Kate Bond, Peter Gerety, Tyvonna Jones, Bill Martin Williams, Mary Shaw, Alfred Carter Jr., Dhemi Mathis, Da'mohr Mathis, Tian Richards, Kermit Burns III, Lisa Arrindell, Linden Harris, Jordan Eli Arellano, De'Marco Arrington, Aniyla Johnson, Gabriel Ebert, Matthew Bernard, Kathi Binkley, Raphael Dante' Carr Jr., Jacob Cooper, Ninja N. Devoe, Clint Edwards, Kayla Ellenwood, Christopher Robert Escobar, Sean Freeland, Elizabeth Hackler, Debbie Hartner, Monica Haynes, Adrienne Johnson, Todd Lee, Miguel Angel Marrero, Sage Mayer, Jock McKissic, John Merical, Tatom Pender, Earl Poitier, Candy Rachor, David Shae, Tashaun Stanfill-Perry, Laura Alain Steele, Corey Jason Thomas, Alpha Trivette, Kent Wagner, Terrence V. Walker, William Walker, Dolan Wilson, George C. Wolfe, Rebecca Skloot, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo
• Director: George C. Wolfe
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: HBO Pictures
• Media Format: Movie