A Healthy Baby Girl

A Healthy Baby Girl

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 17, 1997

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

A Healthy Baby Girl

Production Companies

ITVS

Director

Judith Helfand

Description

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.