Critical Care (1997)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Escritores (WGA):

Richard Dooling (novel)
Steven Schwartz (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

31 octubre 1997 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Frase comercial:

At Memorial Hospital no one ever dies... Until their insurance runs out.

Plot:

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters...

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Half Sister | Hallucination | Life Support | Blackmail

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Poor ending. Fair movie.

Reparto

James Spader	...	Dr. Werner Ernst
Kyra Sedgwick	...	Felicia Potter
Helen Mirren	...	Stella
Anne Bancroft	...	Nun
Albert Brooks	...	Dr. Butz
Jeffrey Wright	...	Bed Two
Margo Martindale	...	Constance 'Connie' Potter
Wallace Shawn	...	Furnaceman
Philip Bosco	...	Dr. Hofstader
Colm Feore	...	Richard Wilson
Edward Herrmann	...	Robert Payne
James Lally	...	Poindexter
Harvey Atkin	...	Judge Fatale
Al Waxman	...	Sheldon Hatchett (a Lawyer)
Hamish McEwan	...	Dr. Hansen

También conocida como:

En estado crítico (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and a scene of sexuality.

Duración:

107 min

País:

Australia | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Iceland:L | USA:R | Spain:13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Compañía:

ASQA Film Partnership

Citas:

Dr. Werner Ernst: If he's going to die, why should we proceed?
Dr. Butz: Where have you been all your life? It's called revenue!

Conexiones de Película:

References Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Banda de Sonido:

Dry Bones

Poor ending. Fair movie.

Movie tries to be funny but fails in its attempt. Also, the movie has such a simplistic ending.

Basically 2 sisters are fighting over their dad who is on his death bead. One sister wants the dad to be taken off life support soon so that he will die and she can collect all of his money. The other sister will receive all the money if the dad lives long enough. The hospital want's to keep him alive until his insurance runs out. The sister who wants the dad to die, seduced a doctor and is blackmailing him with a video tape and threatens to turn the video over to the hospital if he doesn't cause her dad to die.

The solution the doctor proposes is the solution most normal people would think of with only a few seconds of thought needed. And the way the doctor forces the solution and wraps up the whole film in a couple of minutes is just too simplistic. It was a dumb movie and an even worse ending. 3 stars out of 10.