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Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker is the hopeful and touching story of two remarkable women and their 15-year battle against a cruel and insidious illness, breast cancer. Waged on both scientific and emotional fronts, they are drawn together not just by the disease but by their shared determination and unconventional approaches to their research and to their lives.
Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) has a personal relationship with breast cancer. Her mother and her sister died of the disease and ultimately she is diagnosed with it too. Naturally affable with an offbeat sense of humor - even in the face of her own mortality, she struggles to hold her family and life together, as her body betrays her.
Meanwhile, geneticist Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) is convinced there is a link between DNA and cancer - even if no one in her profession shares her belief. Against the advice of nearly all of her colleagues, she persists in her research and her dogged pursuit for funding that will lead to the groundbreaking study that will join the two women together. Decoding Annie Parker follows the incredible, irreverent and heartwarming story of how the paths of cancer survivor Annie Parker and geneticist Mary-Claire King intersect. With grace and humor the film chronicles how these remarkable women work to make one of the most important genetic discoveries of the 20th century.
Original Release
05/02/2014
US Release
05/02/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Helen Hunt | Mary Claire King / Mary-Claire King |
Samantha Morton | Annie Parker |
Aaron Paul | Paul |
Rashida Jones | Kim |
Richard Schiff | Allen / Mr. Allen |
Alice Eve | Louise |
Bradley Whitford | Marshall |
Maggie Grace | Sarah |
Marley Shelton | Joan Parker / Joan |
Ben McKenzie | Tom |
Directors
Writers
Adam Bernstein, Steven Bernstein, Michael Moss
Cast
Name | Character |
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Helen Hunt | Mary Claire King / Mary-Claire King |
Samantha Morton | Annie Parker |
Aaron Paul | Paul |
Rashida Jones | Kim |
Richard Schiff | Allen / Mr. Allen |
Alice Eve | Louise |
Bradley Whitford | Marshall |
Maggie Grace | Sarah |
Marley Shelton | Joan Parker / Joan |
Ben McKenzie | Tom |
James Tupper | Steve |
Kate Micucci | Rachel |
Spencer Garrett | David |
Mageina Tovah | Ellen |
Robert Pine | Dr. Frank |
Bob Gunton | Dr. Benton |
Chris Mulkey | Ralph Parker |
Katy Boyer | Irma Parker |
Julia Valentine Larson | Student |
Rizwan Manji | Assistant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Johnathan Brownlee | Executive Producer |
Tara Finegan | Executive Producer |
Aaron L. Gilbert | Executive Producer |
Margot Hand | Executive Producer |
Neil MaCrea | Executive Producer |
Nolan Mcdonald | Executive Producer |
Patrick Murray | Executive Producer |
Sidney Powell | Executive Producer |
Laurie Rix | Executive Producer |
Darlene Winter | Executive Producer |
Steven Bernstein | Producer |
Michael Moss | Producer |
C. Steve Goldstein | Producer |
Brigitte Huff | Producer |
Keith Kjarval | Producer |
Mick Partridge | Producer |
Clark Peterson | Producer |
Stuart W. Ross | Producer |
Ron Senkowski | Producer |
Randolf Turrow | Producer |
Jaki West | Producer |
Oliver Wheeler | Producer |
Surina Narula | Producer |
Mary Vernieu | Producer |