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Breakthrough

Mar 9, 2019 · 1h 30m
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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.

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CAST

Woody Harrelson
Narrator (voice)
Jim Allison
Self
Directed by Bill Haney

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Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
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—
Production
Uncommon Productions
Country
US

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