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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • Status: Released
  • 22-04-2017
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Score: 6.5
  • Vote count: 98

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.

Rose Byrne

Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Henrietta Lacks

Oprah Winfrey

Deborah Lacks

Ninja N. Devoe

Country Girl Mae

Lisa Arrindell

Aunt Ethel

Earl Poitier

Cousin Josh

L. Warren Young

Day Lacks

Patrick Walker

Cousin Fred

Jane Rumbaua

Mrs. Hsu

Sylvia Grace Crim

Mary Kubicek

Tian Richards

Lawrence (16 yrs.)

Kate Bond

Young Woman

Jazzy Ellis

Young Gladys

Jock McKissic

Carl the Mechanic

Kyanna Simone Simpson

Deborah (15-24YRS)

Tinashe Kajese

Sadie

Kayla Anderson

Johns Hopkins Student

Karen Wheeling Reynolds

Mrs. Gey

Todd Lee

Doctor

Jordan Eli Arellano

Young Sonny Lacks

Mary Shaw

Woman at Pump

Tatom Pender

Johns Hopkins Nurse

Christopher Robert Escobar

Chris the Intern

Clint Edwards

Scientist

De'Marco Arrington

Young Joe

Jaylon Gordon

Alfred

Tashaun Stanfill-Perry

Henrietta Lacks Neighbor

Matthew Bernard

Johns Hopkins Student

Sage Mayer

Young Boy

Elizabeth Hackler

Rebecca's Co-worker

David Shae

Reporter

Jaedon Godley

Davon Lacks

Tyvonna Jones

Elsie Lacks

Raphael Dante' Carr Jr.

Young Sonny

Miguel Angel Marrero

Scientist

Courtney B. Vance

Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Reed Birney

Dr. George Gey

Alpha Trivette

First Administrator

Terrence V. Walker

Church Patron

Sean Freeland

Charlie

Reg E. Cathey

Zakariyyah

Gabriel Ebert

Christoph Lengauer

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_