55 Steps

"Justice is won step by step."

May 3 2018 PG-13 1h 55m
Biography, Drama

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.

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Plot

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 workaholic life.

Written by

Mark Bruce Rosin

Directed by

Bille August

Cast

Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, Johan Heldenbergh

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany, United States of America, Belgium

Production Companies

Aloe Entertainment, Mass Hysteria Entertainment, MMC Movies, Potemkino Port, Elsani Film

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

5 nominations total

Trailers
55 Steps Trailer - On Digital 10/16, In Theaters 11/16
Scores
# of Votes
3,868
Average Rating
7 out of 10
Metascore
42
Popularity
NA