The Ball Method

May 18, 2020

0h 19m

★ 0.0

Overview

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

University of Southern California

USC School of Cinematic Arts

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant

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Cast

Alice Ball

Kiersey Clemons

Dr. Dean

Wallace Langham

Dr. Hollmann

Kyle Secor

Patient

Kristian Ventura

Kalani

CJ Uy

Nurse

Shannon Corbett

Visitor (as Ed Stasik)

Edward Stasik

Nurse Addie

Elizabeth Hales

Nurse Harper

Cailin McDonald

Test Patient 1

Ernie Rivera

Nurse

Roma Lucero

Patient

Aaron Louie

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