- This film provides a historical perspective and highlights successes in women's movements, helping to illuminate what it takes to achieve legislative reform and, ultimately, sustainable change.
- Women's rights in the United States have consistently been debated and challenged through the legal system. Writer, producer, and director Robert Hennie's documentary FIGHT, travels back to the 1970s through the late '90s and highlights the role male physicians played in the decision-making process of women's medical options. Director Hennie candidly sums up how breast cancer survivors victoriously fought for justice, against the male-driven and disfiguring radical mastectomy. Has resulted in today's women the "right to choose" the option that is best for their body and lifestyle.
What separates this breast cancer documentary from other of this nature. It's ability to show the physical, emotional and politic battle that women have endured over six decades. Director Hennie story is told from the point-of-view of the survivors. Hennie also, takes the audience inside a recently diagnosed patient's consultation session, with her surgeons, to demonstrate that survivors "right to choose" politic fight, is alive a well. Her first breast cancer support group experience, to show the emotional struggles many breast cancer fighter face during their journey. Hennie goes behind close surgical doors of hers and two other patient surgeries.
Director Hennie also interviewed some of the country's top board-certified medical physicians, including Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie's plastic surgeon Jay Orringer, M.D. and America's Favorite Breast Cancer Surgeon, Kristi Funk, MD. Both medial doctors, along with Diagnostic Radiology Specialist Dr. Patricia Sacks who review the history of breast cancer treatment, discuss ways of reducing recurrence, and emphasize the importance of early detection to increase survival rates.
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By what name was Fight Trilogy Fight (Film) (2018) officially released in Canada in English?
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