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55 Steps is a 2017 German-Belgian drama film directed by Bille August and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, and Jeffrey Tambor. The film is based on the true story of Eleanor Riese. [3] Premise. The story is about a woman committed to a mental health facility.
Riese: Created by Ryan Copple, Kaleena Kiff. With Amanda Tapping, Christine Chatelain, Patrick Gilmore, Sharon Taylor. Riese, a seemingly random wanderer, is being hunted by a terrifying religious cult, The Sect. Traveling from nation to nation for years, she is accompanied only by a wolf, Fenrir.
55 STEPS is based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese (Helena Bonham Carter), a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes (Hilary Swank).
Sep 7, 2017 · What are the 55 Steps? An organization of spies, perhaps? No, they’re the amount of literal steps that San Franciscan Eleanor Riese ( Helena Bonham Carter) ascends on her first day in court (she...
Sep 14, 2017 · “55 Steps,” a new movie premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the real-life story of Eleanor Riese, a patient who sued a hospital for her right to refuse antipsychotic medication.
Justice is won step by step. The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Riese, a seemingly random wanderer, is being hunted by a terrifying religious cult, The Sect. Traveling from nation to nation for years, she is accompanied only by a wolf, Fenrir.
