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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / HBO Films presents ; a Your Face Goes Here Entertainment production, a Harpo Films production , a Cine Mosaic production ; a George C. Wolfe film ; produced by Kathryn Dean ; screenplay by Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo, George C. Wolfe ; directed by George C. Wolfe.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Drama.
- Lacks, Henrietta.
- Skloot, Rebecca, 1972---Television adaptations.
- Skloot, Rebecca.
- Lacks, Deborah--Drama.
- Lacks, Deborah.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951.
- African American women--Drama.
- African American women.
- HeLa cells.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Cancer--Patients.
- United States.
- Virginia.
- Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Drama.
- Cancer.
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States--Drama.
- HeLa cells--Drama.
- Informed consent (Medical law)--Drama.
- Informed consent (Medical law).
- Local Subjects:
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Made-for-TV movies.
- Biographical films.
- Historical films.
- Fiction television programs.
- Television adaptations.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : HBO Home Video, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish; optional subtitles in French or Spanish.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
- Dolby digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used without her consent to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her 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 and the face of medicine forever."--Container.
- Participant:
- Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Reg E. Cathey.
- Credits:
- Music, Branford Marsalis; editor, Aaron Yanes; director of photography, Sofian El Fani.
- Notes:
- Based on The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / by Rebecca Skloot.
- Special features: "Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne, along with writer/director George C. Wolfe and members of the Lacks family, discuss the legacy of Henrietta Lacks in this compelling Family featurette"; Filming in Georgia.
- Videodisc release of the made-for-tv movie originally broadcast on April 22, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9786316985330
- 6316985339
- OCLC:
- 999842686
- Publisher Number:
- 00883929600977 gtin-14
- 883929600977
- 3000074643 HBO Home Video (container)
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