Breakthrough (2019)

  • NR
  • 03/09/2019 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 30m

Overview

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.

Bill Haney

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Woody Harrelson's headshot

Woody Harrelson

Narrator (voice)
Jim Allison's headshot

Jim Allison

Self

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