Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
- technology
- fraud
- business
- medical research
- health documentary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Elizabeth Holmes
Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos (archive footage)
Alex Gibney
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
Dan Ariely
Self - Behavioral Economist
Roger Parloff
Self - Fortune
- Ken Auletta — Self - The New Yorker
- Erika Cheung — Self - Lab Associate
- Cheryl Gafner — Self - Receptionist
- Dave Philippides — Self - Engineer
- Douglas Matje — Self - Biochemist
- Ryan Wistort — Self - Research & Development
- Tony Nugent — Self - Vice President, Product Development
- Phyllis Gardner — Self - Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
- Channing Robertson — Self - Theranos Advisor
- Don Lucas — Self - Investor
- Tim Draper — Self - Investor
- Directed
- Alex Gibney
- Written
- Alex Gibney
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 308 ratings
- Studio
- Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
