Do You Really Want to Know?

A documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. The film follows three families who have been confronted with the decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington's disease - a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's simultaneously - and one of the first diseases people could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. As scientists discover more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, "do you really want to know?" will be a question more and more of us will face.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 272775
  • Status Released
  • Released Canada May 6, 2012 (DOXA Documentary Film Festival) United States of America August 1, 2012 (Columbia Gorge International Film Festival)
  • Runtime 72 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country Canada
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company Optic Nerve Films
  • Distributor Knowledge Network TVO
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