Critical Condition (1987)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.4/10   

Director:

Michael Apted

Escritores:

Denis Hamill (story) &
John Hamill (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 enero 1987 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

Guess who's playing doctor?

Plot:

A man framed in a jewel smuggling tries for an insanity plea and is sent to a hospital for review where he is confused for another doctor and takes over the hospital when a major storm hits.

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Beautiful Woman | Mistaken Identity | New York City | World Trade Center New York

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Long on potential, short on results

Reparto

Richard Pryor	...	Eddie Lenahan / Dr. Kevin Slattery
Rachel Ticotin	...	Rachel Atwood
Rubén Blades	...	Louis
Maria Cardinale
Joe Mantegna	...	Arthur Chambers
Bob Dishy	...	Dr. Foster
Sylvia Miles	...	Nurse Maggie Lesser
Joe Dallesandro	...	Stucky
Randall 'Tex' Cobb	...	Box
Bob Saget	...	Dr. Joffe
Joseph Ragno	...	Palazzi
Jon Polito	...	Kline
Garrett Morris	...	Helicopter Junkie
Brian Tarantina	...	Tommy Pinto
Jude Ciccolella	...	Jack Kinney

También conocida como:

Estado crítico (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

High Point Regional Hospital - 601 N. Elm Street, High Point, North Carolina, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Bob Saget/TLC (#20.19)" (1995)

Banda de Sonido:

THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES

Long on potential, short on results

Basically a vehicle for Pryor, this is a rough and somewhat ugly movie, disfigured in part by a surfeit of swearing in a film that doesn't need it and a bunch of vaguely unsympathetic characters. The central plot – a framed man who has claimed insanity has to pretend to be a doctor during a blackout at a hospital – is intriguing if somewhat convoluted. As a twist on the fish-out-of-water story, it has much potential, in the same way that Woody Allen's "Hollywood Ending" has much potential in its premise of a suddenly-blind director having to go through the entire shoot without letting anyone know he is blind. Just as with that movie, "Critical Condition" mainly fails to capitalize on its potential, and the film is oddly slow-moving and genuine laughs are hard to come by.

Pryor does well to work with the underdeveloped material, and Rachel Ticotin adds solid support in the role of the hospital administrator. There is a nice addition of a subplot involving crooks roaming the hospital to add to the tension of the staff and patients trying to survive the power outage, and the film as a whole is at least watchable, but not very memorable. It does not have widespread appeal as a comedy/thriller and should probably be best recommended for Pryor fans only.