The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Trailer (2017)

Trailer for the HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starring Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne and Courtney B. Vance.

Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name. Told through the eyes of Henrietta Lacks' daughter, Deborah Lacks, the film chronicles her search, along with journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne), to learn about the mother she never knew and understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever.