Andrew Duncan, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg
Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) wrote the script for this 1971 film that mixes--in Chayefsky tradition--absurdist satire with a touching, almost wistful love story. George C. Scott plays a cynical doct...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2003
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January 13, 2008I normally love hospital flicks and dark humor but this one was just plain bad!
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June 14, 2009This is absolutely NOT a dark comedy/satire with a "wistful love story." Its a depressing film on the state of affairs in a city hospital & as anyone who has worked in a hospital will tell you, these things really do happen. Extremely dated, badly written & too talky.
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June 14, 2009There's nothing funny about a hospital. However, Paddy Chayefsky manages to conjure some good psychological commentary in this droll, wry black satire, in which incompetent staff doctors are mysteriously turning up dead. A study in hypocrisy and irony in the medical establish...( read more)
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August 17, 2008Deeply nasty, and very funny satire of modern medicine (40 years ago), and just about everything else.
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February 1, 2008This movie kills me. I love George C. Scott's performance and there are some amazing monologues, but there are also some weird plot lines that rubbed me wrong.
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