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Radium Girls (2018)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,45 10 votes

Genre: Drama / History

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Lydia Dean Pilcher

Stars: Joey King, Abby Quinn and Cara Seymour

IMDb score: 6,3 (2.651)

Releasedate: 23 October 2020

Radium Girls plot

Young sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminescent dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. It is becoming clear that exposure to radium has serious public health implications. They therefore decide, together with a number of other factory workers, to argue for safer working conditions. Based on true events from the 1920s.

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knoflikari

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The film that gives a true picture of the story of the Radium Girls provides a complete picture of a dramatic piece of history and is at the same time a tribute to these employees.

When the Curie couple discovered radium in 1898, it quickly became a popular drug. It appears in drinks and cosmetics and it is used in luminous paint. In Illinois, many young women work as "dial painters" in a factory, where they paint the hands of clocks and watches with this paint. What they don't know is that by pointing their brush with their mouth, they ingest a lot of radioactive radium. When they develop serious health problems, it is already too late... The film clearly captures the spirit of the times, the roaring twenties and the attention for women's suffrage.

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Black Math

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Courtroom films are not my favorite genre. The subject of this film is interesting, because it concerns a part of history that I had no knowledge of at all, namely ladies who painted the numerals of watches with radium, and as a result became terminally ill en masse, which led to one of the first lawsuits. on safe workplaces for workers. Fortunately not a constant focus on legal cases, but also enough attention to the background of what happened, with the collages of old images as intermezzos making this film feel slightly more original than other films in the genre. 3*.

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