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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks (Digital HD/DVD)
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Genre | Drama |
Format | NTSC |
Contributor | George C. Wolfe, Alexander Woo, DB Woodside, Alan Ball, Gabriel Ebert, Courtney B. Vance, Oprah Winfrey, John Douglas Thompson, Adriane Lenox, Rose Byrne, Kathryn Dean, Rocky Carroll, Roger Robinson, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Byron Jennings, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Rebecca Skloot, Renee Elise Goldsberry, John Benjamin Hickey, Peter Gerety, Carla Gardini, Peter Macdissi, John Beasley See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman's search for enlightenment about her mother--whose "immortal" cells would save millions of lives. Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line, known as HeLa. Told through the eyes of Lack's daughter Deborah (Winfrey) and journalist Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne), the film chronicles Deborah's search to learn about the mother she never knew, and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs. Co-starring Renee Elise Goldsberry, Reg E. Cathey, Courtney B. Vance, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Leslie Uggams and Reed Birney. Directed by George C. Wolfe; screenplay by George C. Wolfe and Alexander Woo; based on the book by Rebecca Skloot.
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- Digital Copy Expiration Date : December 31, 2022
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : George C. Wolfe
- Media Format : NTSC
- Release date : September 5, 2017
- Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renee Elise Goldsberry, DB Woodside, Courtney B. Vance
- Dubbed: : English
- Producers : Kathryn Dean, Oprah Winfrey, Carla Gardini, Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : HBO
- ASIN : B071KHC8H3
- Writers : George C. Wolfe, Alexander Woo
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,748 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,641 in Drama DVDs
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The movie is the beginning and not the end of the story of Henrietta Lacks. As a human being, her story resounds like a steel echo of my spiritual evolution , as a person with the mind of a theoretical physicist, a scientist, I am excruciatingly fascinated by the origin of Ms. Lack's cellular composition. She was more than human, that's unquestionable, her genetic sequence beyond what we can yet understand , It underlies today's stem cell research. I want to know more, more about the woman, the human being, the child, the woman, the mother. What irony is it to have the name of Lacks, when she possessed the key to immortality in her very cells. Something Jon Hopkins recognized and took it upon itself without the consent of the immediate family, to take and utilize the key for its own gains. Ms. Henrietta lives on forever inside her descendants and frozen in tubes (the latter a chilling thought). On it's own, that it was cultivated from cervical cancer cells gives an undeniable chill and brings to foresight the question of what exactly IS cancer? The theories are endless and the range is wide and varied. All that aside, we all know why J Hopkins chose to rename it the HeLa. And that in itself is disgraceful. A lot of the benefits of today have been culled from atrocities of not that long ago. Think about that between the tears shed for the lives created and moved by Ms. Henrietta Lacks. Remembered , loved, cherished and so much more than any of us will ever understand.
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Nobody knows what the medical establishment does with all the samples they collect and considering that Henrietta's cells are at the center of most medical advancements in the past 50 years + and all the money the pharmaceutical companies made out of her cells since their discovery, you would think that the family could gain from it, at least a tiny little bit. Think again.
Totally love the story and for me it was an eye opener.