The Hospital (2003)

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Studio: United Artists Films

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jan 1, 2003

Running Time: 103 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: George C Scott, Diana Rigg, Stephen Elliott, Donald Harron, Roberts Blossom, Lenny Baker, Richard Dysart, David Hooks, Robert Walden, Arthur Junuluska

director: Arthur Hiller

Twenty-four hours in the life of Dr. Bock, the Chief of Medicine at a large teaching hospital who is going through a desperate mid-life crisis. While Bock is deciding how to make his imminent suicide look accidental for insurance purposes, his plans are interrupted by a series of deaths among the doctors and staff.

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This blisteringly cynical satire, written by Paddy Chayefsky, is one of the darkest movies ever made, a cold-eyed lament for a society torn apart by upheavals of the Sixties. The hospital of the title is a sinkhole of moral chaos and despair, presided over by George C. Scott, a suicidal fallen-knight of a surgeon who wants to stop caring but can't. Inside the hospital, doctors and nurses are mysteriously dying; outside, the place is under siege by Black Panther-type radicals. Then leggy Brit…