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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.
Sep 14, 2017 · “55 Steps,” a new movie premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the real-life story of Eleanor Riese, a patient who sued a hospital for her right to refuse antipsychotic medication.
May 3, 2018 · Biography Drama. 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 meeti... Read all.
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- Biography, Drama
- Bille August
- 2018-05-03
Nov 27, 2018 · “55 Steps” tells two stories. The first is a legal drama based on the true story of Eleanor Riese, a psychiatric patient who, in the late 1980s, sued a San Francisco hospital for the right to...
Sep 7, 2017 · Bille August's true-life courtroom drama, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank, is too many strides from good.
55 STEPS is based on the inspiring true story of the unlikely relationship between an outrageous and wickedly smart Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter), a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she’s been mistreated, and her attorney, a workaholic patients’ rights lawyer, Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank).
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...
- 2 min
- 98.6K
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
