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HBO Films' THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS debuts on April 22. See the video above.
About the Film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
HBO Films' THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, directed by George C. Wolfe from a screenplay by Peter
Landesman and Alexander Woo and Wolfe, debuts on HBO on Saturday, April 22nd. Told through the eyes of her
daughter, Deborah Lacks (Winfrey), the film chronicles her search to learn about the mother she never knew and to
understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical
breakthroughs. It's a story of medical arrogance and triumph, race, poverty and deep friendship between the unlikeliest of
people. Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," which took more than a decade to research and write,
instantly hit the New York Times bestseller list upon publication, and remained there for more than four years. Several
members of the Lacks family served as consultants on the film, including Henrietta's children, David Lacks, Jr. and

41Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman, and Henrietta's grandchildren, Jeri Lacks Whye, Alfred Carter, Jr. and LaTonya Carter.
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