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Critical Care

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Critical Care (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 7  Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.1/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Synopsis: CRITICAL CARE, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader, focuses on a young medical doctor, Werner Ernst, who rebels against the hospital that employs him when he realizes that the doctors favor wealthy patients and those with generous medical insurance.... CRITICAL CARE, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader, focuses on a young medical doctor, Werner Ernst, who rebels against the hospital that employs him when he realizes that the doctors favor wealthy patients and those with generous medical insurance. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright

Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenwriter: Steven S. Schwartz
Story: Richard Dooling

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May 2, 1999

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...a drily funny satire about America’s health care woes...

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Lumet moves with confidence between satire and intriguing, heightened-reality spirituality.

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