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David Morse, Debra Monk, Gene Hackman

Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The tr...( read more  read more... )ail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent surgeon Dr Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), but Luthan soon finds himself under in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

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R, 1 hr. 57 min.

Directed by: Michael Apted

Release Date: September 27, 1996

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DVD Release Date: December 14, 1999

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  • RossCollinsUK
    November 30, 2008
    RossCollinsUK
    I can't remember much about this movie but I think I enjoyed it.
  • franktowers
    January 31, 2008
    franktowers
    not hugh grants best work
  • thmtsang
    July 14, 2007
    thmtsang
    Thriller about legally medical practices.
  • Beefy
    April 25, 2007
    Beefy
    Grant is quite good.
  • 76Majikat
    March 26, 2007
    76Majikat
    Thank goodness Hugh Grant made at least one film where he wasn't completely type cast. This actually had a really good story to it, I really enjoyed it
  • MisterTuttle
    November 20, 2009
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    This is a ver...( read more)y good thriller. Hackman's character uses homeless people to experiment on to try and find a cure for people who are paralyzed or disabled in some way. Grant's character tries to figure out why a patient of his disappeared. His search leads him to Hackman who presents a question: If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that?
    That's one of those questions where human nature is put to the test. Very thought provoking.
  • Sheiob
    October 24, 2009
    Sheiob
    It's a mediocre film, that has a lot of great actors putting in decent performances. Worth a one time watch if you're bored and/or really like the cast.
  • WitchfulThinking
    July 29, 2009
    WitchfulThinking
    This movie had some good thriller elements. Sarah Jessica Parker's role could have been mostly eliminated. The major flaw here was Hollywood's continued perpetuation of the myth of the Hippocratic Oath. Doctors are some of the most ruthless, psychopathic, incompetent, cruel, c...( read more)allous capitalists in the world. They routinely experiment on the destitute, the uninsured, the unwary, and the homeless. Many seem to delight in negligently killing patients. We won't even start with the drug companies here.

    I'm not buying Hugh Grant's character's idealism. His Dudley DoRIght character is a complete turd in this film, and not likely to be found in real life. I have plenty of M.D.'s in my family and it's my opinion that no M.D. worth his salt would have turned his back on such valuable research. This is one case in which the unethical doctors were doing something worthwhile. The subjects were the sorts of people I live in fear of everyday. I realize that there is a slippery slope type issue here, as the European branch of my family could have attested to in 1939-1945, had they not been put into a Volkswagen ashtray. However, that issue is beyond the scope of this movie. Just once, it would have been nice to see the idealist have an epiphany of reality in the end. Once again in the course of a review, I must utter the curse, "Hollywood, Eat My Shit."

    Or perhaps, as has been pointed out in the forums, it is the idiotic American audience that is to blame for the smarminess. Hollywood is simply a machine programmed to choose the most financially becoming conclusion to any film.
  • betomovies
    July 26, 2009
    betomovies
    No hay etica, no hay moral, no hay limites. Solo hay medidas extremas
  • Surfer567Rosa
    June 9, 2009
    Surfer567Rosa
    hey! hugh grant isn't the womanizing yet charming english bachelor in this! wow.

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  • pic055000
    January 8, 2007
    pic055000
    Paul Guilfoyle as a doctor huh man hot.

    Hugh Grant is a good actor in dis movie ohh and so is Paul Guilfoyle :)
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