Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [videorecording] / HBO Films presents ; a Your Face Goes Here Entertainment, Harpo Films, 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.
Edition:
[DVD].
Publisher, Date:
[New York, New York] : HBO Home Video, [2017]
©2017
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical surround Dolby digital 5.1 Dolby digital 2.0
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1
Made-for-TV movies
Summary:
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.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: TV-MA.
Subjects:
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Drama.
African American women -- Drama.
Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Drama.
Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- Drama.
HeLa cells -- Drama.
Genre:
Made-for-TV movies.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Dean, Kathryn (Producer), film producer.
Landesman, Peter, 1965- screenwriter.
Woo, Alexander, screenwriter.
Wolfe, George C., film director, screenwriter.
Winfrey, Oprah, actor.
Byrne, Rose, actor.
Goldsberry, ReneĢe 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.
Notes:
Originally released as a made-for-tv movie on April 22, 2017.
Based on the book written by Rebecca Skloot.
Widescreen (enhanced).
Bonus 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.
ISBN:
9786316985330
6316985339
Publisher or Distributor Number:
3000074643
2000136060
Other Number:
999842686
System Availability:
38
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3544879
Call Number:
791.43/72
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
36
Medium:
[videorecording]