55 Steps

IMDb link: 4459156
IMDb rating: 7 (4,077 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography
Director: Bille August, Johan Heldenbergh
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Jeffrey Tambor, Hilary Swank, Michael Culkin, Cynthia Hoppenfeld and others

Release date: 3 May 2018
Release year: 2017
Runtime: 115 minutes
Country: Germany, Belgium
Keywords: female psychiatric patient, female lawyer, unlikely friendship, opposites attract, female protagonist, patient rights, legal battle, patient rights activist, female activist, female friendship

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.

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