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The Doctor |  | Director: Randa Haines
Actors: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  55 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DISD29277D
UPC: 786936209754
EAN: 0786936209754
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1991
Release Date: April 6, 2004
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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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 Excellent Movie October 24, 2009
Ginny (Alaska)
I teach potential nursing students and ask that they all watch this movie as part of the medical ethics portion of our class.
It is a very feel good movie, has humor and teaches basic moral ethics.
I love it.
There's always a day in which a doctor becomes patient! October 6, 2009
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
"The doctor" is a mature although slow paced film that deals with the delicate position of a doctor who must face in own flesh a malign tumor on his larynx and must experience the other side of the chair as patient.
The film begins with a key sequence when he and his medical team are singing a song after a sensible operation A set of events will make to open his eyes around the emotional problematic that means to be patient before this feared illness.
Once more, the naturalness of this overlooked artistic patrimony like William Hurt is, establishes the difference between it might have been another soap opera and a good film. He leads the movie until a secure port. Kudos too for the amazing acting of Elizabeth Perkins like Juno, she did live the personage.
A zealous script makes this chamber work a piece that overpasses the average.
A quality human interest film September 29, 2009
The Purple Heart (USA)
This movie, starring John Hurt, should be required viewing for doctors with less than desirable bedside manners, or anyone who needs to take look at things from the other side of the fence. Plenty of human interaction and feeling for fans of this genre of movie as well. We ALL need to do what John Hurt portays in this quality film from time to time. You won't be disappointed with this one.
A movie everyone in health care should watch. September 6, 2009
Kevin Nazario Bartolomei (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
We all get sick, and eventually we all die. Most people working with patients forget that they may be the one on the operating table or the wheel chair tomorrow. Doctors with many years of service become cinycal and loss contact with their own humanity. This is an excellent movie about this topic, I strongly believe this movie should be a most watch in medical schools. Buy it, watch it, and think.
EXCELLENT August 10, 2009
Michele Duppins (Gaithersburg, MD United States)
This was a great purchase. The product came as written by seller. Great Movie.
Thank You.
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