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55 Steps (2018)

115 min · Drama

The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

Film

55 Steps (2018)

IMDb7.06.7TMDB115 min

Justice is won step by step.

The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

Director
Bille August
Writers
Mark Rosin

Themesbased on true storybiographylawyerlegal battlemental patient