The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Movie • 2017 • Drama
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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.
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some onscreen blood is drawn, images of vaccines, cells, etc. in a laboratory/hospital context. The images are not lingered on for long
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Does someone have cancer?
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The plot of the movie is about the use of the HeLa cells taken from Henrietta Lacks during a biopsy of cervical cancer cells. Discussion of cancer occurs.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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The characters visit an old asylum while following up on the death of a family member. Current patients are not shown, they just go to a records room, but the treatment is stated to be poor in the 1950s.
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