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- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / by Dean, Kathryn(Producer),television producer.; Landesman, Peter,1965-screenwriter.; Woo, Alexander,screenwriter.; Wolfe, George C.,television director,screenwriter.; Winfrey, Oprah,actor,television producer.; Byrne, Rose,actor.; Goldsberry, Renée Elise,1971-actor.; Vance, Courtney B.,actor.; Carroll, Rocky,actor.; Uggams, Leslie,actor.; Birney, Reed,1954-actor.; Cathey, Reg E.,actor.; Marsalis, Branford,composer (expression); Yanes, Aaron,editor of moving image work.; El Fani, Sofian,director of photography.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Skloot, Rebecca,1972-Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.; HBO Films,presenter.; Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Harpo Films,production company.; Cine Mosaic (Firm),production company.; HBO Video (Firm),publisher.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
- DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby digital.Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Reg E. Cathey.Music, Branford Marsalis ; editor, Aaron Yanes ; director of photography, Sofian El Fani."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.Rating: TV-MA.
- Subjects: Biographical films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951; Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-; Lacks, Deborah; African American women; Cancer; Human experimentation in medicine; HeLa cells;
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