55 Steps 2017 Watch Free in HD

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.

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Actors:

Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Plester, Richard Riddell, Michael Culkin, Johan Heldenbergh, Vincent Riotta, Anneika Rose, Jonathan Kerrigan, Tim Ahern, ...»

Director:

Bille August

Country:

Germany, Belgium

Release:

2017

IMDb:

7.0

Quality:

Duration:

115 min

Variety

Fails to elicit memorable work from any of its principal collaborators.

September 09, 2017

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Reel Film Reviews

It's a relatively interesting story that's given the movie-of-the-week treatment by director Bille August...

October 07, 2017

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Los Angeles Times

The wild-haired Carter has the flashier role and, although she digs into it with gusto, she's all over the emotional map.

November 13, 2018

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WBAI Radio

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 08, 2018

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Hollywood Reporter

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.

September 08, 2017

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Cinemalogue

Considering the ramifications of its true-life story, this earnest legal melodrama about fighting the system never achieves the necessary urgency or poignancy.

November 16, 2018

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Black Girl Nerds

The film does not end on the high note that I anticipated, but it does come full circle.

September 15, 2017

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Washington Post

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.

November 28, 2018

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