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  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA)
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA)
  • 1 h 55 m

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.

Directed By: Bille August

Written By: Mark Bruce Rosin

  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA)
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2018
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA)
  • 1 h 55 m

55 Steps

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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.

Directed By: Bille August

Written By: Mark Bruce Rosin

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Nov 28, 2018
As Eleanor, Bonham Carter delivers a sweetly oddball performance playing a high-maintenance but fiercely determined grouch who is mostly impossible to like. Swank, for her part, is no picnic either: A former psychiatric nurse who discovered law later in life, her Colette is a largely charmless workaholic.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
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Nov 15, 2018
August, whose English-language films have seldom compared well to his distinguished Scandinavian ones, can’t elevate this material much above the flat, pat TV-movie earnestness it seems content to aim for.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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Nov 15, 2018
Scene by scene you wish 55 Steps made you angrier than it does. Yet August's docile filmmaking acts as an emotional soporific, removing even the potential camp pleasures of Bonham Carter's histrionics.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
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Nov 13, 2018
The filmmakers’ choice to focus so heavily — and, unfortunately, dully — on the odd-couple friendship between the tightly-wound, workaholic Hughes (Hilary Swank) and the brashly spirited Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) instead of on the bigger-picture legal wranglings and wider effects of the landmark lawsuit against a San Francisco hospital may point to the chapter’s cinematic limitations.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Elsani Film, Aloe Entertainment, ChickFlicks Productions, MMC Movies, Mass Hysteria Entertainment, Potemkino Port
Release Date Nov 16, 2018
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Two Unlikely Friends Changed History
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Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 4 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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