Stars: Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymourįor playdates and more information, please visit the official website.įor festival or booking inquiries, please contact educational inquiries, please visit our educational site. It is also the receipient of the ReFrame Gender Balanced Award.ĭirectors: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler This website is intended as a companion site to Moore’s book.
Sloan Award and the Audience Award at The Heartland Film Festival. To this website, which celebrates the Radium Girls: the American women from the Roaring Twenties who were poisoned by their work and courageously fought for justice, and who inspired the multi-award-winning and New York Times bestselling book The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. The film premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival where it won the Alfred P. Each day, the girls painstakingly paint hundreds of watch dials embellished with glowing radium paint on the clock faces for the soldiers fighting in World War II and public fashion.
Pilcher produced the film along with Emily McEvoy, and "Grace and Frankie's" Lily Tomlin, Harriet Newman Leve, Jane Wagner, Janye Baron Sherman and Willette Klausner Executive Produce. The play Radium Girls tells the true story of young women working in watchmaking factories during the 1920’s. Radium Girls marks the feature directorial debut of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" Academy-Award nominated producer Lydia Dean Pilcher and "Gunslingers" writer Ginny Mohler, who wrote the script alongside Brittany Shaw. Starring Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Joey King ("The Act,", "The Kissing Booth") and Abby Quinn ("Mad About You" reboot, "Little Women"), Radium Girls is a celebration of everyday women finding their strength in the unlikeliest of circumstances. With Jo's life dwindling, just as those of her former colleagues have, Bessie becomes determined to bring the horrors of radium poisoning to light and take down American Radium and fights not only for her sister, but also for the rest of the women around her she becomes a powerful advocate as she risks everything to stand up to the corporation that provides her family's livelihood. However, when her younger sister Josephine becomes ill, the sisters uncover the unknown truth about radium: it's a deadly poison. They take pride in their jobs and Bessie dreams of becoming an actress in the new motion picture industry and having crowds of adoring fans. The national sensation following the notorious case of the Radium Girls in 1928 ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity.Watch At Home Now or Find A Theater Near Youīased on a true story, Bessie and Josephine are sisters employed at American Radium, where they paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials at a New Jersey factory.
Running out of time as Jo's health declines, the Radium Girls must decide whether they have the resources to prevail against American Radium or whether their interests are best served by accepting a settlement out of court.
She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie’s world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. Set in the late 20s, the factory workers are all women who are supporting their families and consider themselves lucky to be employed. Based on true events, Radium Girls follows teen sisters, Bessie (Joey King) and Jo Cavallo (Abby Quinn), who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey.
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