ヘンリエッタ・ラックスは、１９５１年、５人の子供を遺し子宮頸がんで亡くなった。彼女のがん性腫瘍から発見された稀有な細胞は、科学者たちの間では“不死の細胞”として知られるものだった。その細胞は、後に何十万人もの患者を救うことになり、医学業界に多額の利益をもたらした。だが、実はそれは彼女が知ることなく無断で彼女の体から摂取され、彼女の家族でさえ１９７５年になるまで知ることはなかったのだった。
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監督: George C. Wolfe
脚本: アレクサンダー・ウー / Rebecca Skloot / George C. Wolfe
音楽: ブランフォード・マルサリス
制作: アラン・ボール / Lydia Dean Pilcher / Kathryn Dean
撮影監督: ソフィアン・エル・ファニ
制作会社: Harpo Films / Cine Mosaic / HBO Films
**You will know everything, but Henrietta Lacks!** It's a good biographical drama, but the only problem is its not what exactly the title says. If you believed to learn about Henrietta Lacks and went to see it, you might end disappointingly. Because she was the only topic of the story, not the actual story, except a few glimpses. It is like you watched 'Infamous' or 'Capote', instead of 'In Cold Blood'. That's what like this film. Yet not a bad film. A writer pursuing the family members of a person who lived in the mid 20th century, because she was a medical phenomenon. Her cells used to treat cancer, despite she had died of cancer, leaving her young kids behind. Her descendants not aware of how things work in the medical research, only misguided by others, finally, set to discover the truth themselves about all the fuss. It was nominated for the Emmy, but did not win. Oprah was okay, but Rose Byrne impressed me. Except a misleading title, it is a good film, but I really wanted/want to know the Henrietta Lacks. That's funny, because they have told us an unnecessary story. I hope somebody would make a film about actual Henrietta Lacks! _5.5/10_
