Overview
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
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Based on a true story
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Dagmawi AbebeWriter
- Javier CarmonaWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 18, 2020
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cast
Kiersey ClemonsAlice Ball
Wallace LanghamDr. Dean
Kyle SecorDr. Hollmann
Kristian VenturaPatient
CJ UyKalani
Shannon CorbettNurse
Edward StasikVisitor (as Ed Stasik)
Elizabeth HalesNurse Addie
Cailin McDonaldNurse Harper
Ernie RiveraTest Patient 1
Roma LuceroNurse- Aaron LouiePatient
- Christian MedinaPatient
- Debbie KindredPatient
- Marco ChiongStudent
- Megan O'Grady GreeneVisitor
- Jack CrishStudent
- Chiayu TsaiPhoto Patient
- Jan Remcee RedondoPatient
- Louis ShapiroVisitor
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