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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. It is based on the book of the same name by Rebecca Skloot and documents the story of Henrietta Lacks , who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in the 1950s, and whose cancer cells (later known as HeLa ) would ...
Apr 21, 2017 · Wolfe’s movie seeks to humanize someone who became immortal. It takes someone who became huge in the world of science and shows us who she was, the life she led, and the family she left behind. Then why isn’t this her story?
Apr 20, 2017 · One of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of 2010, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” began as an investigation of a medical miracle but became a gripping, poignant story about racism,...
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Director George C. Wolfe and HBO Films have now collaborated to bring an inevitably incomplete but still lovely, loving film version of Skloot’s complex and compelling book to the screen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackscarefully combines motifs of exclusion and inclusion as it evokes the story of a woman whose cancer cells miraculously survive...
Wisely, director Wolfe doesn’t really even try. Instead, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks deftly and touchingly opens up dimensions in the characterization of the women who inspired the book — both Henrietta herself and her longsuffering but determined daughter, Deborah, played powerfully by the film’s co-producer, Oprah Winfrey— that certainly...
Besides, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has plenty to offer in other sequences to cynics in need of a fix. Wolfe structures the story a bit like Citizen Kane, in which the plot-quest of an investigative reporter serves primarily as the vehicle to tell the broader story of a historical figure’s life — but this time with all sorts of racial com...
The careful blending of Hennie’s story with the quest of Dale and Rebecca sends an unmistakable message. The past of Henrietta Lacks and the historical injuries she sustained never really ended, of course; they live and breathe not simply through her cells, but most truly and importantly through her children, whose lives were shaped by their mother...
At the beginning of the Johns Hopkins scene, Wolfesends the actual Rebecca Skloot in a nurse’s uniform to usher Deborah and the others to the lab where they will immerse themselves in HeLa. It’s a perfect choice for the author’s cameo, the kind of woman in white who might well have helped the actual Henrietta give birth to her children and (in a ve...
In the HBO movie, Oprah Winfrey stars as the daughter of Henrietta Lacks who, with help from a reporter, finds out that her mother's cells are being used as the basis for medical...
Synopsis In 1951, cancerous cells from Henrietta Lacks lead to breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever. Aided by writer Rebecca Skloot, Deborah Lacks...
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Apr 21, 2017 · The movie, an adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by Rebecca Skloot, explores the impact of how Lacks’s immortal cell line affected her family for decades.
