The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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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.
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.
As the film progresses, Deborah’s tragic life becomes clearer and clearer, as does her motivation for learning more about her mother. But it’s Winfrey who sells the character more than the film itself. In a largely restrained turn, Winfrey…
The film does not do justice to the profoundly careful, detailed and intricate book – nor, more surprisingly, to Henrietta herself, who appears ... Henrietta Lacks was 31 and a mother of five children when she died at Baltimore’s Johns…
George C. Wolfe ’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” premiering on HBO tomorrow night, tells Henrietta’s (Renee Elise Goldsberry) story. Sorta. It also tells the story of journalist Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne), the woman who spent a…
