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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.
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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.
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Sep 7, 2017 · Movies. Movie Reviews. ’55 Steps’: Film Review | TIFF 2017. Bille August's true-life courtroom drama, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank, is too many strides from good. By Keith...
Sep 15, 2017 · I saw Bille August ’s “55 Steps” and Jon Avnet ’s “Three Christs” the same morning and details of the two films are swimming and blending together in my head, and not only because they’re both based on important chronicles in the history of psychology.
55 Steps. 55 STEPS is based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter), a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank). 381 IMDb 6.9 1 h 54 min 2018. X-Ray PG-13.
Sep 9, 2017 · Sep 9, 2017 11:59am PT. Toronto Film Review: ‘55 Steps’. Hilary Swank and Helena Bonham Carter star in a tale of patients' rights advocacy from the 1980s. By Dennis Harvey. Sometimes the...
Nov 16, 2018 · Summary 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 medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case. Biography. Drama. Directed By: Bille August.
