ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

adonis98-743-186503 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. Oprah's bland perfomance makes for a film so boring and so bad that makes it the most boring drama i have ever seen. From the uninteresting plot to the terrible perfomances. (0/10)

bettycjung 9/8/17. Since I read the book I was so looking forward to seeing this with Winfrey. Sadly, it was somewhat of a disappointment, especially if you have read the book and enjoyed it. I just loved the book because it was so well-written. Though the movie did cover the book rather adequately the emphasis on the infighting among Lacks's adult children made the movie uncomfortable to watch. These adult children were not educated. Winfrey's portrayal of Debbie Lacks was spot-on as well- meaning daughter who wanted to learn more about her mother but was fraught with mental health issues that made her labile and unreasonable most of the time. Byrne did a find job of portraying Skloot. You will actually feel sorry for her because of how much grief she had to go through to get the facts right and pay homage to Henrietta Lacks and her contribution to medical research. I don't think this movie is worth watching, but the book is definitely worth reading.

Michael Ledo In 1951 John Hopkins discovered that Henrietta Lacks had cells that can be stored and stay alive. This proved invaluable for medical research and has contributed to nearly every medical breakthrough since then. But who was she? The story is briefly about her life, but moreover it is about the hoops author Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne) had to jump through to get the story dealing with a dysfunctional family with misconceived ideas. Oprah Winfrey gave a strong performance as the paranoid hypochondriac daughter of Henrietta. Good drama with interesting characters.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

pcgerut-38459 The details of Henrietta Lacks' contributions to medicine are not the focus of this movie. It is the Lacks family, their struggles and the one enduring element in their lives that they could have been proudest of -- the stem cell research that the mother left to the world. Oprah's performance is transcendent. It elevates the movie the way great portrayals can. And while we miss the science as important as it is, perhaps the story told here will motivate those who see the movie to read the book. It did me.