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Breakthrough
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Breakthrough

May 19, 2022
1h 30m
★ 8.5

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Uncommon Productions

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Cast

Woody Harrelson

Narrator (voice)

Woody Harrelson

Jim Allison

Self

Jim Allison