150 Milligrams

(2016)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 131 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2016

Runtime: 128 мин

Country: France

Director: Emmanuelle Bercot

Cast: Сидсе Бабетт Кнудсен, Бенуа Мажимель, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle De Hertogh, Lara Neumann, Patrick Ligardes, Philippe Uchan, Гюстав Керверн, Pablo Pauly, Olivier Pasquier

Plot

In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.

Irène Frachon, a doctor who lives in the Breton town of Brest, dares to stand up to the French health and pharmaceutical industry, helping to uncover the media scandal surrounding the commercialization of a controversial medicine whose side effects have caused the death of hundreds of people.