Radium Girls

[Opened Oct. 30 in theaters and played as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups, available Nov. 6 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society (for more information, log on to mspfilm.org), and available on various VOD platforms.] Striking cinematography and costumes highlight this captivating, factually based, well-acted, star-studded (Scott Shepherd, Carol Cadby, Susan Heyward, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, John Bedford Lloyd, Brandon Gill, and Neal Huff), 102-minute, 2018 film in which a spunky, 17-year-old employee (Joey King), who dreams of acting in Hollywood, in 1925 decides to expose American Radium in New Jersey with the help of the Consumers League founder (Cara Seymour), a newbie lawyer (Adam LeFevre), and a scientist (Veanne Cox) when she learns that her older sister died of radium poisoning and her other sister (Abby Quinn) and coworkers (India Ennenga, Colby Minifie, Gina Piersanti, Juliana Sass, et al.) who paint watch dials with radioactive liquid to make them luminous have also been exposed to the deadly toxin.
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