Radioactive

Year: 2020
Description: Cast includes Aneurin Barnard, Simon Russell Beale, Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, and Anya Taylor-Joy.
Dramatized biography of Marie Curie (played by Rosamund Pike)—a double Nobel Prize winner who researched radiation and discovered the elements polonium and radium—and her intellectual and personal partnership with Pierre Curie (played by Sam Riley) with intercuts of how their work contributed to present-day medical practices, technologies, and the nuclear industry.
Director: Satrapi, Marjane
Writer: Thorne, Jack
Producer: Bevan, Tim; Fellner, Eric; Webster, Paul
Cinematographer: Mantle, Anthony Dod
Editor: Roche, Stéphane
Production Team: Amazon Studios, Shoebox Films, StudioCanal, and Working Title Films
Genre: Feature Film
Drama
Content Notes: Explicit sex
Source: Based on the book Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
Language: English
Media Format: 1 DVD (105 min.) or 1 streaming video (105 min.)
Type: Color
Additional Content: The DVD includes deleted scenes and the featurettes "A Conversation with Marjane and Rosamund," "Impacts and Consequences," and "A Rebel in Her Element."
Original Release Date: 2019
Updated: 05-30-2023

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