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Breakthrough

6.9 2019 1h 30m
Documentary

Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.

Directed by Bill Haney

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CAST

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Woody Harrelson
Woody HarrelsonNarrator (voice)
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Jim AllisonSelf
CURATED SCREEN

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