55 Steps

55 Steps

Justice is won step by step.

2018115 min6.7 / 10

An uplifting true-story drama about an unlikely friendship between a mental patient and her lawyer fighting for patient autonomy and dignity within the healthcare system.

The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

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