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Critical Care is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sidney Lumet released in USA on 31 october 1997 with James Spader

Critical Care (1997)

Critical Care
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Released in USA 31 october 1997
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating59% 2.953642.953642.953642.953642.95364

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.

Synopsis

Dans un hôpital en crise, un médecine est impliqué dans la dispute entre deux demi-sœurs, l'une voulant débrancher leur père plongé dans le coma, l'autre non.

Actors

James Spader

(Dr. Werner Ernst)Kyra Sedgwick

(Felicia E. Potter)Helen Mirren

(Stella)Anne Bancroft

(Nun)Albert Brooks

(Dr. Butz)
And :
Wallace Shawn
Jeffrey Wright
Margo Martindale
Colm Feore
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