Critical Care (film)
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Initial DVD release March 15, 2000 Duration Language English | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Screenplay Steven Schwartz Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 31, 1997 (1997-10-31) Cast (Dr. Werner Ernst), (Felicia Potter), (Stella), (Dr. Butz), (Nun), (Furnaceman) Similar movies Self/less , Thank You for Smoking , Johanna , Mission: Impossible III , Straight Outta Compton , The Expendables 3 |
Medical resident Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) aspires to help sick people, but is constantly warned by his mentor, Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks), to treat only patients with good insurance coverage. Soon, Ernst must deal with two sisters, Felicia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Connie (Margo Martindale), who are arguing over the proper treatment for their ill father. Although he tries to remain uninvolved, Ernst finds himself attracted to Felicia, though he suspects both women are really after money.
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Critical Care is a 1997 film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film is a satire about American medicine. The screenplay by Steven Schwartz is based on the novel by Richard Dooling and stars James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Anne Bancroft, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, and Albert Brooks. Rick Baker provided special makeup effects. The film is about a doctor who finds himself involved in a fight with two half sisters over the care of their ailing father.
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
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Similar Movies
The Interns (1962). Mary Stevens - MD (1933). Article 99 (1992). Men in White (1934). Margo Martindale appears in Critical Care and First Do No Harm.
Reception
Writer Steven Schwartz was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay.
References
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