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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 ...
- (3.7K)
- 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...
Oct 8, 2018 · 55 Steps tells the story of Eleanor Riese, a psychiatric patient who successfully fought the US’s medical and political establishment in the 1980s for the right to...
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...
- 2 min
- 99.2K
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Nov 27, 2018 · Helena Bonham Carter, left, and Hilary Swank as real-life patient Eleanor Riese and her lawyer, Colette Hughes, who won a landmark case for mental patients’ rights in the 1980s.
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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.
