55 Steps
55 Steps is based a 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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14 October 1972, Lincolnshire, England, UK
1 August 1926, Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
4 February 1968, USA
1992
10 September 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
1979, Honeybourne, Worcestershire, England, UK
11 May 1967, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
31 May 1984, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1953
September 15, 2017
The film does not end on the high note that I anticipated, but it does come full circle.
September 08, 2017
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.
October 07, 2017
It's a relatively interesting story that's given the movie-of-the-week treatment by director Bille August...
November 16, 2018
Considering the ramifications of its true-life story, this earnest legal melodrama about fighting the system never achieves the necessary urgency or poignancy.
November 13, 2018
The wild-haired Carter has the flashier role and, although she digs into it with gusto, she's all over the emotional map.
September 09, 2017
Fails to elicit memorable work from any of its principal collaborators.
November 08, 2018
Though 55 Steps, well, side-steps the alarming political issues, with the doctors in question as cover for the true medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex villains, at its core this film transcends class as a remarkable female bonding story.
November 28, 2018
Somehow, these two difficult people are easy to watch, at least on the screen. They are honest to a fault, which is, in the end, their charm.
