What You Need To Know About Radium Girls

Joey King has undoubtedly delivered many hits as of late: with her proper movie debut in Ramona and Beezus alongside Selena Gomez, and subsequent rise to popularity with the release of The Kissing Booth, she has become a celebrity sensation. However, it was her role in the Hulu true crime series The Act, as Rose Gypsy Blanchard, that marked her out as an truly great actress.

Radium Girls is a 2018 American drama film about the female factory workers who were poisoned from the radiation in paint factories. Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler directed the film while Ginny Mohler and Brittany Shaw wrote the screenplay. Lydia Dean Pilcher and Emily McEvoy produced the film while Cine Mosaic served as the production company and Juno Films serves as the distribution company.

What is the film all about? When is it going to come out? Is it worth watching? Well, you just gotta keep on reading to find out!

Radium Girls: Plot and Cast

The film is about female factory workers at three different United States Radium paint facilities: one in Orange, New Jersey, another in Ottawa, Illinois and the third in Waterbury, Connecticut. These women were tasked with painting watch dials with self luminous paint so that one could see the dials at night without light.

The women were told to make the point of their paint brushes finer with their lips, which resulted in them ingested deadly amounts of radium paint. Some women also painted their fingernails, face and teeth with the glowing paint as they were told it is harmless.

Many of the women became extremely sick from radiation poisoning, which also resulted in several uncounted deaths. Women should symptoms such as necrosis of the jaw, which is now known as radium jaw, along with anaemia and bone fractures. This lead to several women taking legal routes in order to avenge and protect themselves.

Joey King plays Bessie in the movie while Abby Quinn plays Josephine. 

Radium Girls: Release Date and Trailer

The movie was theatrically released on October 23, 2020, nearly two years after its initial release at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Watch the trailer below: