Jim Allison: Breakthrough

Name: Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 27, 2019
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Andrew Pollack, Eric Benson, Jim Allison, Lewis Lanier, Sharon Belvin

2019

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Dada Films | Release Date: September 27, 2019 | PG-13

Starring: Andrew Pollack, Eric Benson, Jim Allison, Lewis Lanier, Sharon Belvin, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson

Summary: Jim Allison: Breakthrough is the astounding, true story of one warm- hearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer. The film traces Allison’s remarkable life from his school-boy days in Friday Night Lights, Creationist Texas all the way to Stockholm where, in December of 2018, he accepted the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Director: Bill Haney

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 90 min

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Ann Hornaday

Oct 2, 2019

This is a “just see it” movie, as in: Forget flowery language, redundant synopsis, clever paraphrasing or hyperbolic praise. Just see the dang thing. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 23, 2019

The film is a portait in dogeddness and going against the current thinking in cancer treatment and research. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Sep 27, 2019

Prosaically straightforward but consistently interesting portrait of the maverick research scientist who was awarded a 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 26, 2019

Documentaries about innovative figures don’t always offer correspondingly innovative filmmaking. But even coloring within the lines of conventional biographical storytelling, Jim Allison: Breakthrough provides an accessible introduction to James P. Allison. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Sep 26, 2019

With the colorful Allison — he’d fit right into one of KFC’s revolving Colonel spots — and narrator Woody Harrelson at his disposal, Haney could have easily done without all the glossy dramatic recreations and frequent shout-outs to Bristol-Myers Squibb, which occasionally create the undesirable effect of a corporate promo video. Read full review

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