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Release Date:
27 May 1982 (UK) moreTagline:
Will they ever recover ... ?Plot:
Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Once you check in.... more (20 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Leonard Rossiter | ... | Vincent Potter |
| Brian Pettifer | ... | Biles |
| John Moffatt | ... | Greville Figg |
| Fulton Mackay | ... | Chief Superintendant Johns |
| Vivian Pickles | ... | Matron |
| Barbara Hicks | ... | Miss Tinker |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Professor Millar |
| Jill Bennett | ... | Dr. MacMillan |
| Peter Jeffrey | ... | Sir Geoffrey |
| Marsha A. Hunt | ... | Nurse Amanda Persil (as Marsha Hunt) |
| Catherine Willmer | ... | Dr. Houston |
| Mary MacLeod | ... | Casualty Sister |
| Joan Plowright | ... | Phyllis Grimshaw |
| Robin Askwith | ... | Ben Keating |
| Dave Atkins | ... | Sharkey |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
116 min | USA:111 minCountry:
UKLanguage:
EnglishColour:
Colour (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoFilming Locations:
Friern Barnet Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, Friern Barnet, London, England, UK moreFun Stuff
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Robbie Coltrane and Richard Griffiths would later appear together on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). moreQuotes:
Professor Millar: Friends! Fellow Members of the Human Race! We are gathered here for a purpose. Let us look together at Mankind. What do we see? We see Mastery. What wonders Mankind can perform. He can cross the oceans and continents today, as easily as our grandfathers crossed the street... moreSoundtrack:
RULE BRITANNIA moreFAQ
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| Mark Hamill on drugs | Creflo |
| Is a 1.85:1 dvd available? | p-halley |
| 'Anamorphic' dvd heavily cropped top and bottom! | p-halley |
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Anderson's dark satire on politics within a hospital (perhaps after the apocalypse) falls slightly flat only for those familiar with the 2 exceptional films that this one is ostensibly a sequel to. The humor here is even more extreme and grotesque than in "O Lucky Man" -- at one point the hero's head is cut off and placed on a substitute body. Hamill is amusing as a news technician too stoned to save MacDowell, or even himself, from the lunacy. Unfortunately, the script relies on "joke jokes" and has too little of an emotional center (MacDowell's character is taken out of the center of things here for some reason, perhaps budgetary). Nice photography. Fans of sadistic humor should get a great kick out of it, but "O Lucky Man" and "If....." are in every way superior.