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55 Steps is the international title, the movie is known as 'Eleanor & Colette' in some markets. Reception Critical response. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 50% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 6.83/10.
- Mark Bruce Rosin
- Annette Focks
May 3, 2018 · 55 Steps: Directed by Bille August. With Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, Johan Heldenbergh, Cynthia Hoppenfeld. 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 ...
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- Biography, Drama
- Bille August
- 2018-05-03
Sep 7, 2017 · Many a film has treated mental illness as some kind of sage state, and 55 Steps is no different in the way Eleanor acts as a cut-loose-and-live! guru to Colette. A clothes-shopping trip becomes an ...
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.
55 Steps (2017) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... 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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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. Jim had filed an amicus brief in the case.
