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Release Date:
30 March 1997 (UK) morePlot:
A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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1 win moreUser Comments:
ER + Scrubs + British humor = potential combination (not to?) describe this movie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Greg Wise | ... | Dr. Jim Nightingale |
| Bob Peck | ... | Harley Benson |
| Hywel Bennett | ... | Dickie Beaumont |
| Mark Heap | ... | Dr. Ralph Crosby |
| Haydn Gwynne | ... | Victoria Barking |
| Celia Imrie | ... | Sister Muriel |
| Susannah Doyle | ... | Alison |
| Julian Clary | ... | Jock |
| Claire Rayner | ... | Herself |
| Alexei Sayle | ... | X Ray Operator |
| Martin Clunes | ... | Isolation Patient |
| June Brown | ... | Cleaner |
| Nicholas Parsons | ... | Wheelchair Man |
| Philip Pope | ... | Pianist |
| Clive Anderson | ... | Sea Captain |
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TV series about medicine, interns and/or paramedics are common on Tv nowadays. Films about it are not exactly like that. This uncommon experimentation is made on this production, with an ambiguous, sadistic, tragicomic script, centering on a neurosurgeon doctor's routine. It's been quite a long time since I've seen this film on HBO, and I don't regret of that. It's nice watching some fresh, unpredictable stuff once in a while. The plot is cleverly INtense, NOT tense and filled with medical clichés and jargons, as it can be presumed at first, though. We can see here a more honest, fluid point of view about the banalization of human life within such work environments, far away of being explored by north-american productions about delicate themes such as health issues. So to say: a more human -- limitated as it is implicited -- role. I assure that moralistic, pretensiosly romanced approachs so widely used by Warner Bros. and its cheesy, predictable TV series, for instance, are happily avoided by a less hipocrite european insight of humor. Using my comparison above, that I've used only for an easier analogy, Hospital! is like a Scrubs without immature interns and naive, dissociated life lessons, plus an ER without semigod doctors and tasteless script.