55 Steps is based a 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.
8 February 1949, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
11 May 1967, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
1992
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
1 August 1926, Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
10 September 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
26 May 1966, Golders Green, London, England, UK
4 February 1968, USA
31 May 1984, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1953
October 07, 2017
It's a relatively interesting story that's given the movie-of-the-week treatment by director Bille August...
September 09, 2017
Fails to elicit memorable work from any of its principal collaborators.
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2017
The film does not end on the high note that I anticipated, but it does come full circle.
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.
