Movie
The Doctor
Drama film with a runtime of 125 minutes, released in 1991. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
A doctor finds out the hard way that there's more to medicine than skill in the operating theater in this emotional drama. Jack McKee (William Hurt) is a gifted but arrogant surgeon who cares little about the emotional welfare of his patients and is little more than a benign stranger to his wife Anne (Christine Lahti) and his son Nicky (Charlie Korsmo). Jack has been suffering from a nagging cough for some time, and when he begins coughing up blood one morning, he finally allows another doctor to take a look at him. The doctor discovers that Jack has a malignant tumor in his throat that could rob him of the ability to speak, or even kill him. Suddenly, Jack is a patient instead of a doctor, and he learns first hand about the long stretches in the waiting room, the indignity of filling out pointless forms, and the callous attitude of the professional medical community. Jack also gets to know June (Elizabeth Perkins), a terminal cancer patient whose joyous embrace of life as her time draws to a close is an inspiration to him. Restored to health, Jack is determined to be a more caring healer and strives to be a better husband and father, but his new lease on life also earns him an enemy in fellow surgeon Murray (Mandy Patinkin), who wants Jack to lie under oath for him in a major malpractice case; and a new respect for Eli (Adam Arkin), an ear-nose-throat man he used to ridicule for his empathetic treatment of his patients. The Doctor was based on the memoir of real-life surgeon Ed Rosenbaum, entitled "A Taste of My Own Medicine.", A fact-based story of a surgeon who learns the importance of compassion in a physician-patient relationship when he's treated for cancer.
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Cast
- William Hurt
- Christine Lahti
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Mandy Patinkin
- Adam Arkin
- Charlie Korsmo
- Wendy Crewson
- Bill Macy
- J.E. Freeman
- William Márquez
- Kyle Secor
- Nicole Orth-Pallavicini
- Ping Wu
- Tony Dean Fields
- Tony Fields
- Brian Markinson
- Maria Tirabassi
- Ken Lerner
- Bruce Jarchow
- Keith Polk
- Nellye Leonard
- Richard McKenzie
- Denis Heames
- Sue Rihr
- Lynn Stalmaster
- Brandyn Artis
- Millie Slavin
- Nancy Parsons
- John Marshall Jones
- Laurie Lathem
- Adam Wylie
- Stephen Moore
- Cynthia Mason
- Breon Gorman
- Renee Victor
- Gregor Hesse
- Fran Bennett
- Zoaunne LeRoy
- Jonathan Kohl
- Ross Eto
- Michael O'Dwyer
- Karen S. Gregan
- Lillian Hurst
- Rosa Maria Briz
- Steven Gundry
- Akuyoe Graham
- Jusak Bernhard
- Nicholas Frangakis
- Matthew T. Clancy
- Jeris Poindexter
- Derek Van Longshore
- Gail Neely
- Lily Mariye
- Woodryan Alexander
- Susan Schelling Long
- Zakes Mokae
- Susan Schelling
- Noah Austin
- Ed Feldman
- Leonard Engelman
- Anthony Minghella
- Joe Tompkins
- Edward S. Feldman
- Gary Fettis
- Robert Caswell
- John Seale
- Joe I. Tompkins
- Frank Ceglia
- Joe English
- Lisa Fruchtman
- Matthew W. Mungle
- Bruce Green
- William J. Durrell Jr.
- Michael S. Glick
- Ed Rosenbaum
- Ken Adam
