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Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother.
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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- You want something to laugh at
- You want fast pacing
- You want dark or edgy material
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Audiences 75GoodWatch 72
IMDb7.5
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 10 countries, rent or buy in 24 more
Released
2019
March 9, 2019
7 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Bill Haney Director, Screenplay
Production · 1
- Jennifer Pearce Producer
Editing · 1
- Peter Rhodes Editor
Other crew · 2
- Graham Talbot Cinematography
- Nelson Talbot Cinematography
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