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Paper Mask is a film of genre Drama directed by Christopher Morahan with Paul McGann

Paper Mask (1990)

Paper Mask
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Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating65% 3.2892953.2892953.2892953.2892953.289295

Paper Mask is a 1990 British drama film directed by Christopher Morahan and starring Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe and Tom Wilkinson. A hospital porter decides to impersonate a doctor in a busy hospital. It was based on a novel by John Collee.

Synopsis

Matthew Harris is a young, lowly orderly working in a busy hospital in London who dreams of bigger and better job opportunities for himself. One evening, he witnesses a car accident outside a local pub where the driver of a car is killed after colliding head-on with a lorry. Harris learns that the man, named Simon Hennessey, was a doctor at the hospital where he works and had been applying for a residency at another hospital in Bristol. Harris takes the dead man's mail and fills out a job application and applies for the job himself under the late doctor's idenitity. After studdying medical books and getting "hands on" involvement with other patients at his hospital, Harris applies for the job and is accepted. He quits his orderly job and settles in Bristol where he, as Dr. Simon Hennessey, is assigned to a busy emergency room.

Actors

Paul McGann

(Matthew Harris)Amanda Donohoe

(Christine Taylor)Tom Wilkinson

(Dr. Thorn)Frederick Treves

(Dr. Mumford)Barbara Leigh-Hunt

(Celia Mumford)
And :
Jimmy Yuill
Mark Lewis Jones
Oliver Ford Davies
Clive Rowe
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