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Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Documentary

2019, Movie, 1h 30min

Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.

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Woody Harrelson,

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Breakthrough tells the story of Jim Allison, a renegade scientist who defied the medical establishment and spent decades researching a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Despite facing skepticism and resistance, Allison remained determined to find a solution, ultimately earning the Nobel Prize in 2018 for his groundbreaking discovery of how to harness the power of the immune system to defeat cancer.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Breakthrough include On Putin's Blacklist, Slums: Cities of Tomorrow, Traces in the Snow, The Hunting Ground, David Foster: Off the Record, Tickled.

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Breakthrough was released in theaters on September 27, 2019.