Critical Care

Starring:James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks, Jeffrey Wright, Margo Martindale, Wallace Shawn, Philip Bosco, Colm Feore, Edward Herrmann, James Lally, Harvey Atkin, Al Waxman, Hamish McEwan, Jackie Richardson, Barbara Eve Harris, Conrad Coates, Bruno Dressler, Caroline Nielsen
Director: Sidney Lumet
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

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FIVE STAR INDEPENDENT FILM
Smart Esoteric Movie
Good Description of Our Medical System in the USA
Great satire on the health care system
What a great movie !

Critical Care
Starring: James Spader , Kyra Sedgwick , Helen Mirren , Anne Bancroft , and Albert Brooks
Director: Sidney Lumet
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0784011192
Release Date: 1998-02-18

Customer Reviews:

FIVE STAR INDEPENDENT FILM.......2007-01-09

Lumet does it again. Inspirational and enlightening, Lumet highlights the struggle between what is right and what is expedient. he focuses on the weakness of expediency, the strength of the almighty dollar, and the pull of conscience (for some who have one), always cast aside by profiteers and how the choices are the test of character which most people fail. A great cast: Helen Mirren, James Spader, Kira Sedgewick, Albert Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ed Herrman, and more, weigh in on profit versus Goodness, "do unto others...".

The issue at hand is one of the ethical questions of our era pertaining to the technical capacity to keep people "Alive" virtually forever, or let them go to God.

The difficult problem is handled with a fine mix/balance of humor, satire, apoplexy, empathy and commonsense. After seeing it on IFC we bought a copy. Spader is the physician for a comatose man whose two daughters are divided on the issue of maintaining him in a vegetative state or pulling the plug. However, at stake is $10,000.000 which goes to one sister if the plug is pulled and another if it is not. the battle widens when an army of lawyers for the hospital, the doctors, the insurance companies and each sister, weigh-in.
The moral/ethical/financial (the patient has iron cald insurance, which the hospital loves).
Those who actually have a conscience will love the ending.

Smart Esoteric Movie.......2006-04-17

If you are medical doctor involved in making life and death decisions, you will really appreciate the ideas in this movie.

Good Description of Our Medical System in the USA.......2005-08-09

I'm not sure about the movie itself, but it addresses the real issues of today's medical system where no one cares about patients and all they want is money.

In reality, however, it does not end like this movie. In the movie two parties come to an agreement convinced by a doctor, but I am sure people are kept alive just for a cash flow to be running. It is very sad, but that's how it is.

I like some of humors seen in the movie. Independant Film Channel has given this movie two stars, but I think it is too harsh. It should have at least three stars or more.

Great satire on the health care system.......2005-07-13

I'm a physician and I thought this was a great commentary on the health care system and not too far off the mark. James Spader gets caught in a catfight between two daughters of a dying man, either of which stands to inherit $10 million, depending on when the old man goes. Helen Mirren is the angel of Mercy/Death who is Spader's Jiminy Cricket. Ed Hermann plays the sleazy hospital attorney, and Albert Brooks is hysterical as an old physician who has the perspective of his many years. His memorable line about physicians: "We used to be gods. Now we are glorified auto mechanics."

What a great movie !.......2002-02-24

Sidney Lumet directed some classics (Network, Serpico, Dog Day afternoon) but lately none of his movies ever did much of a business (A Stranger among us, Guilty as Sin, Gloria) but this one is surprisingly good. It has wonderful casts that include James Spader, Kyra Sedwick, Helen Mirren and Albert Brooks.

Customer Reviews:

FIVE STAR INDEPENDENT FILM.......2007-01-09

Smart Esoteric Movie.......2006-04-17

If you are medical doctor involved in making life and death decisions, you will really appreciate the ideas in this movie.

Good Description of Our Medical System in the USA.......2005-08-09

Great satire on the health care system.......2005-07-13

What a great movie !.......2002-02-24

Description

Author of The Old Religion, David Mamet talks about his work as a playwright, a novelist and an acting coach. Next, actor/director Sidney Lumet discusses his latest comedic film, Critical Care, as well as his upcoming project, Gloria. Also, CEO of Starfish, Philippe Kahn, reviews some new personal technology. Finally, Founder of Carolina Herrera Ltd. , Carolina Herrera, and her daughter Carolina Adriana Herrera discuss fashion and the family business.

Directors' Choice Collectors Pack (Chaplin / Critical Care / The Crying Game)

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Directors' Choice Collectors Pack (Chaplin / Critical Care / The Crying Game)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr. , Geraldine Chaplin , Paul Rhys , John Thaw , and Moira Kelly
Director: Richard Attenborough , Sidney Lumet , and Neil Jordan
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0784013241
Release Date: 2000-03-15

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