55 Steps

Name: 55 Steps
Released: 2018-5-2
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Johan Heldenbergh, Cynthia Hoppenfeld

55 Steps

PG-13
1h 54m
2018

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55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

Director:

Bille August

Writer:

Mark Bruce Rosin

Cast:

Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Johan Heldenbergh, Cynthia Hoppenfeld

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Reviews

Washington Post

Michael O'Sullivan

Somehow, these two difficult people are easy to watch, at least on the screen. They are honest to a fault, which is, in the end, their charm.

Considering the ramifications of its true-life story, this earnest legal melodrama about fighting the system never achieves the necessary urgency or poignancy.

The wild-haired Carter has the flashier role and, although she digs into it with gusto, she's all over the emotional map.

Though 55 Steps, well, side-steps the alarming political issues, with the doctors in question as cover for the true medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex villains, at its core this film transcends class as a remarkable female bonding story.

It's a relatively interesting story that's given the movie-of-the-week treatment by director Bille August...

October 7, 2017

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