Helena Bonham Carter
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55 Steps is a 2017 German-Belgian drama film directed by Bille August and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, and Jeffrey Tambor. The film is based on the true story of Eleanor Riese. [3] Premise. The story is about a woman committed to a mental health facility.
May 3, 2018 · When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's ...
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- Biography, Drama
- Bille August
- 2018-05-03
Sep 7, 2017 · In truth, 55 Steps is more of a two-hander about the, ugggh, unlikely friendship between the sassily Catholic Eleanor and her uptight lawyer Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank), a determined crusader...
Sep 25, 2018 · 55 Steps is based on 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...
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- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese (Carter), 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 (Swank), the lawyer appointed to her case.
Oct 21, 2018 · by Amy McLean. MY BOOKS: https://www.mcleanamy.co.uk/ It's the Helena Bonham Carter 55 STEPS ELEANOR & COLETTE movie review! [OPEN FOR LINKS AND FACTS!] #55Steps #HelenaBon...
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- Amy McLean
Jim told me about Eleanor Riese, a woman diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, who became the plaintiff in a lawsuit to improve the treatment of patients in psychiatric hospitals. He told me about her lawyers, Colette Hughes and Mort Cohen, who, like Eleanor, lived in the Bay Area.
