![]() ![]() ![]() When Jo starts exhibiting worrying medical issues - the same that plagued their older sister before she passed away two years ago, and diagnosed as syphilis by an uncaring and unkind company doctor - Bessie is forced to face a horrifying reality of corporate and cultural deception. Bessie is a little more footloose and fancy-free, her painting work not exactly reliable, while Jo is the more studious of the sisters, and a star when it comes to her fast and nearly perfect work. Focused primarily on sisters Bessie ( Joey King) and Jo (Abby Quinn), the film picks up five years after women have finally been granted the right to vote, and the young sisters are still trying to make their own way in the world, complete with jobs at the local American Radium (a tiny name tweak) factory. Pilcher and Mohler’s “Radium Girls” follows what happened to one set of workers in 1925 New Jersey with care and respect, though this mostly unknown slice of American history feels oddly inert in its cinematic telling. ‘The Lie’ Review: Joey King Stars in Blumhouse’s Hilariously Overwrought Master Class in Bad Decision-Making
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