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55 Steps
When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
1953
14 October 1972, Lincolnshire, England, UK
31 May 1984, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1979, Honeybourne, Worcestershire, England, UK
8 February 1949, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
September 15, 2017
The film does not end on the high note that I anticipated, but it does come full circle.
November 16, 2018
Considering the ramifications of its true-life story, this earnest legal melodrama about fighting the system never achieves the necessary urgency or poignancy.
October 07, 2017
It's a relatively interesting story that's given the movie-of-the-week treatment by director Bille August...
November 13, 2018
The wild-haired Carter has the flashier role and, although she digs into it with gusto, she's all over the emotional map.
November 08, 2018
Though 55 Steps, well, side-steps the alarming political issues, with the doctors in question as cover for the true medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex villains, at its core this film transcends class as a remarkable female bonding story.
September 09, 2017
Fails to elicit memorable work from any of its principal collaborators.
November 28, 2018
Somehow, these two difficult people are easy to watch, at least on the screen. They are honest to a fault, which is, in the end, their charm.
September 08, 2017
Scene by scene you wish 55 Steps made you angrier than it does. Yet August's docile filmmaking acts as an emotional soporific, removing even the potential camp pleasures of Bonham Carter's histrionics.