Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
Two privately owned ambulance companies compete for the city contract in LA. The focus, F+B Ambulance Service, has the wildest crew on the block. Cosby (Mother) plays the veteran driver to whom rules ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 9, 2004
Stats: 141 reviews
This movie can't decide what it is. Is it a comedy? Is it a social drama? Is it a romance? An interesting concept I knew nothing about executed terribly. It's about the way ambulance services and emergency medical care were provided and were changing in the 70's. Cosby trie...( read more)
I loved this movie when it came out, but it doesn't date well. Still in comparison to a lot of the product today...
I nice "back in da day" 70's comedy classic by a wide range of actors including Bill Cosby and Racquel Welch and Larry Hagman.
Great 70's underrated and undershown classic. The film like MASH a few years earlier was able to walk the fineline of being a screwball comedy and every once in a while hit you with a very dramatic moment. The movie revolves around the lives and rivalries of independant ambulance...( read more)
A movie with some very funny scenes and some very well acted dramatic ones. It was cool to see some of Cosby's earlier movies, so you know they didn't stink then.
This was a good classic Saturday Morning matinee movie. This movie shows the humorous and tragic side on how tough it is to be an ambulance employee. See it...it is a classic.
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Also, why in the hell is there a "fan club" for this film? I don't get it. Is that a joke?
Is this movie a comedy or a gritty exploration of ambulance driving life a la Scorcese's "Bringing out the Dead"? Not sure, but Larry Hagman trying to rape an unconscious woman doesn't get me laughing. Bill Cosby's multiple dildo massage was funny but jarring. (Can someone upload that clip to YouTube, please? Seriously, Cosby is being massaged by dildos shaped like mens' penises, and in the film he enjoys it.)
At the end, Larry Hagman and a friend get drunk and almost murder a few people. Welch is called "Jugs" because she has large breasts. Get it? And I guess ambulance drivers all sleep in the same quarters like army men. ZzZzZz
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