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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: DVD
EAN num: 0786936209754
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 06, 2004
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 7132
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1991
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Reunited for the very first time since their Academy Award(R)-nominated CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, screen favorite William Hurt and director Randa Haines team up for another successful collaboration in THE DOCTOR. Oscar(R)-winning Hurt (Best Actor, 1986 -- KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN) joins Christine Lahti (RUNNING ON EMPTY), Mandy Patinkin (THE PRINCESS BRIDE), and Elizabeth Perkins (BIG) in the hit release that's been hailed as one of the must-see films of the year. It's the uplifting story of a man who becomes an extraordinary surgeon, as well as an extraordinary person, once he experiences firsthand what it's like being an ordinary patient. Touching hearts of critics and audiences alike, THE DOCTOR promises to entertain and inspire you from beginning to end.
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William Hurt is perfectly cast as an arrogant surgeon who treats patients like interchangeable cogs in the machinery of his medical practice. Then he is diagnosed with throat cancer and, as the title of the memoir on which it is based tells us, he gets a taste of his own medicine. The subplot involves the solidarity between doctors, which is shattered when the newly conscious physician discovers that one of his partners (Mandy Patinkin) is trying to cover up a case of malpractice. Hurt is solid, as is Wendy Crewson as the doctor who treats him and Elizabeth Perkins as a fellow cancer patient. Interestingly, Hurt's fellow actors Patinkin, Adam Arkin, and Christine Lahti all wound up playing doctors on TV's Chicago Hope. --Marshall Fine
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If you work in the medical field you have to give yourself the opportunity to see one of the best movies made starring William Hurt. A doctor who is good at what he does, surgery, but is flippant and unattentive to his patients. He does not treat them like people just as objects to talk over and around but never to.
This successful doctor gets sick and the shoe is on the other foot and he has to deal with the paperwork involved in being a patient, he has to deal with a distant and efficient doctor. He is demanding and rude to the staff.
He meets June who is a terminal cancer patient and she teaches him some of life's lessons.
A heart warming excellent story done with taste and grace.
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If you have epilepsy or no anyone with it you need to look at this movie it will help you so much
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Having had health problems and dealing with a plethora of Drs, nurses and health care "professionals" and ancillary staff, it is my personal opinion that many of them have never been ill and/or in need of hospitalization. This movie should be required viewing for everyone that earns a paycheck in any aspect of health care, from Drs to housekeeping to the switchboard operator.
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This should be required viewing for ALL doctors . . .on a regular recurring basis.
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Yes, it's another cancer movie. This one has an interesting twist, though: this time it's about a doctor. Picture your typical Western doctor: all business, no muss, no fuss.
He has no compassion for his patients and even makes jokes of their illnesses. Then karma catches up with him and he is struck like a lightning bolt with the awareness of what it's like to be a patient in his own hospital. You will undoubtedly be amazed at the transformation of this man's surprisingly gentle and caring soul.
Chris Cade
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