Breakthrough

Breakthrough

2019•1h 30m•6.9/10

Documentary

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6.9/10(8)

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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Uncommon Productions

Language

EN

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Cast

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Narrator (voice)

Jim Allison

Self

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