Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / 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.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : HBO Home Video, [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

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, Renée Elise, 1971- actor.

Vance, Courtney B., actor.

Carroll, Rocky, actor.

Uggams, Leslie, actor.

Birney, Reed, 1954- actor.

Cathey, Reg E., actor.

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.

Wide screen (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.

Music, Branford Marsalis; editor, Aaron Yanes; director of photography, Sofian El Fani.

Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Reg E. Cathey.

DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby digital.

English, French, or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

ISBN:

9786316985330

6316985339

9786316985330 : DVD

6316985339 : DVD

Publisher Number:

3000074643

Other Number:

999842686

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

674813

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD TV Immortal