Due to a high volume of active users and service overload, we had to decrease the quality of video streaming. Premium users remains with the highest video quality available. Sorry for the inconvinience it may cause. Donate to keep project running.
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our servers. We hope to have this resolved soon. This issue doesn't affect premium users.
Get Premium
Watch on MixDrop/MyStream
Oops...
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Here You can choose a playback server.
55 Steps
Description
55 STEPS is the life affirming true story of an unexpected friendship forming during a fight for patient rights against seemingly impossible odds. When Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) discovers that the medication she is being given at St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital in San Francisco is damaging her physically she hires patient's rights lawyer Collete Hughes (Hilary Swank). With the help of expert attorney Mort Cohen (Jeffrey Tambor) the two try to defeat St. Mary's in court while the indefatigable Eleanor and Collette become best of friends; a friendship where the colorful psychiatric patient Eleanor teaches the work-obsessed Collette a thing or two about life itself!
55 STEPS is the life affirming true story of an unexpected friendship forming during a fight for patient rights against seemingly impossible odds. When Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) discovers that the medication she is being given at St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital in San Francisco is damaging her physically she hires patient's rights lawyer Collete Hughes (Hilary Swank). With the help of expert attorney Mort Cohen (Jeffrey Tambor) the two try to defeat St. Mary's in court while the indefatigable Eleanor and Collette become best of friends; a friendship where the colorful psychiatric patient Eleanor teaches the work-obsessed Collette a thing or two about life itself!
Actors:
Helena Bonham Carter,
Hilary Swank,
Jeffrey Tambor,
Tim Plester,
Richard Riddell,
Michael Culkin,
Johan Heldenbergh,
Vincent Riotta,
Anneika Rose,
Jonathan Kerrigan,
Tim Ahern,
...»
Helena Bonham Carter
26 May 1966, Golders Green, London, England, UK
Hilary Swank
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Jeffrey Tambor
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
Tim Plester
10 September 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Richard Riddell
31 May 1984, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Michael Culkin
Johan Heldenbergh
11 May 1967, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Vincent Riotta
Anneika Rose
Jonathan Kerrigan
14 October 1972, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Tim Ahern
Director:
Bille August
COMMENTS (0)
Sort by
Newest
Newest
Oldest
