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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0786936209754
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: DISD29277D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 06, 2004
Running Time: 123 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1991
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William Hurt is perfectly cast as an arrogant surgeon who treats patients like interchangeable cogs in the machinery of his medical practice. Then he is diagnosed with throat cancer and, as the title of the memoir on which it is based tells us, he gets a taste of his own medicine. The subplot involves the solidarity between doctors, which is shattered when the newly conscious physician discovers that one of his partners (Mandy Patinkin) is trying to cover up a case of malpractice. Hurt is solid, as is Wendy Crewson as the doctor who treats him and Elizabeth Perkins as a fellow cancer patient. Interestingly, Hurt's fellow actors Patinkin, Adam Arkin, and Christine Lahti all wound up playing doctors on TV's Chicago Hope. --Marshall Fine
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I teach potential nursing students and ask that they all watch this movie as part of the medical ethics portion of our class.
It is a very feel good movie, has humor and teaches basic moral ethics.
I love it.
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"The doctor" is a mature although slow paced film that deals with the delicate position of a doctor who must face in own flesh a malign tumor on his larynx and must experience the other side of the chair as patient.
The film begins with a key sequence when he and his medical team are singing a song after a sensible operation A set of events will make to open his eyes around the emotional problematic that means to be patient before this feared illness.
Once more, the naturalness of this overlooked artistic patrimony like William Hurt is, establishes the difference between it might have been another soap opera and a good film. He leads the movie until a secure port. Kudos too for the amazing acting of Elizabeth Perkins like Juno, she did live the personage.
A zealous script makes this chamber work a piece that overpasses the average.
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This movie, starring John Hurt, should be required viewing for doctors with less than desirable bedside manners, or anyone who needs to take look at things from the other side of the fence. Plenty of human interaction and feeling for fans of this genre of movie as well. We ALL need to do what John Hurt portays in this quality film from time to time. You won't be disappointed with this one.
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We all get sick, and eventually we all die. Most people working with patients forget that they may be the one on the operating table or the wheel chair tomorrow. Doctors with many years of service become cinycal and loss contact with their own humanity. This is an excellent movie about this topic, I strongly believe this movie should be a most watch in medical schools. Buy it, watch it, and think.
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This was a great purchase. The product came as written by seller. Great Movie.
Thank You.
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