Based on true events of two remarkable women; the irrepressible Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor and the geneticist Mary-Claire King whose discovery of the breast cancer BRCA gene mutation.
19 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
April 17
27 August 1979, Emmett, Idaho, USA
25 February 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 November 1945, Santa Monica, California, USA
1 November 1976, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
4 June 1966
15 June 1963, Culver City, California, USA
6 December 1999, California, USA
29 April 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 July 1941, New York City, New York, USA
27 May 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
12 September 1978, Austin, Texas, USA
26 July 1979, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
4 August 1965, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 16, 2016
This is lamentably short of humour. It's also lamentably short of coherence and seems to have been edited by someone with delirium tremens.
May 01, 2014
This modest indie with major ambitions is directed by veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein, making a solid feature debut.
May 01, 2014
Tears are shed in "Decoding Annie Parker," but they aren't accompanied by the kind of sad, misty soundtrack music that can leave you feeling used and abused. Instead of jerking tears, the movie edifies.
May 02, 2014
The movie's main point of value is in Morton's performance.
May 01, 2014
"Decoding Annie Parker," though uneven in its execution, has at its heart two remarkable women and one remarkable performance.
May 09, 2014
Powerful if a bit uneven docudrama about cancer, research.
October 23, 2014
Samantha Morton gives a fabulous performance.
October 27, 2014
There's a passion to tell this story with an understated urgency and profound empathy that can be felt in every frame of this terrific film.
May 02, 2014
Decoding Annie Parker is a movie about resilience, about staring doom straight in the face - with a smile, with hope.
May 01, 2014
It sticks mostly to one track, taking audience members on a journey that, sadly, via the movies or their own lives, they already may know a little too well.
