55 Steps | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

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...