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Watch: Critical Care 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father’s care, or over his ten million dollar estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital’s legal team and do what’s best for the patient?.
Plot: Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father’s care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital’s legal team and do what’s best for the patient?
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Ratings:

	5.9/10 Votes: 2,152
	59% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 28 Popularity: 2.734 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Case for Euthanasia
There are a lot of good elements to this movie. It reminds me of a feature length episode of “Scrubs” (I’m sure there are other hospital shows like this movie as well, but “Scrubs” is the only one I’ve ever watched). And even though there are many good elements I still don’t have the affinity for it that I have for “Scrubs.”

Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) is a resident at Memorial Hospital. He’s young, over worked, and over sexed. The patient in bed five just recently had a heart attack and is comatose. When the patient’s attractive daughter Felicia Potter (Kyra Sedgwick) comes to visit her ailing father Dr. Ernst spots her and begins making his move. He scored with the PYT, but at a tremendous cost. She recorded them together–and more importantly–she recorded him saying that her father was in a permanent vegetative state. That’s all she needed to get an injunction to have the plug pulled on the old man thereby padding her bank account by $10 million.

Opposing her was her born-again sister, Connie Potter (Margo Martindale), who wanted her father kept alive at all costs because then she’d get the $10 million.

In the middle of it all was the hospital trying to avoid any kind of lawsuit and a hospital director making sure that patients without healthcare were summarily dismissed.

The ingredients were excellent, yet the movie fell flat.

One thing that hurt it for me was that it wasn’t funny. It was branded a comedy, yet nothing was funny about it. “Scrubs” was funny even when they dealt with heavy topics. This movie dealt with a heavy topic, tried to work comedy into it, and failed.

The second detractor was James Spader. He is a supporting character at best to me. I don’t see him as a lead character—or at least not a lead character in this type of movie.

Finally, I didn’t agree with the message. Ernst gave his climactic soliloquy, which was truthful, yet it was devoid of any real impact. He stated what needed to be stated: the sisters just wanted the $10 million, the hospital was just trying to avoid a lawsuit, the insurance company just wanted to collect premiums while not paying out anything, and Ernst himself was a doctor who wanted a nice car and nice women. Facts. But Ernst somehow was the only one who had an epiphany. He slept with Felicia, thereby compromising himself and the hospital, yet because he had this awakening he was able to come up with a magical solution to make him the hero by saving his job, getting each sister $5 million, and giving him the ability to pull the plug on the old man (which is what Felicia wanted anyway, but because her reason for wanting it was wrong she looked like a bad guy).

Why was pulling the plug on bed five the right thing? Because Ernst gave us the impression that he finally cared about his patient and this is the best thing to do for any human being? It’s clear that that’s the message “Critical Care” was pushing: end the suffering and prolonged life of terminally ill patients. Pull the plug. The two plug pullers, Nurse Stella (Helen Mirren) and Ernst, were the protagonists, and we were led to believe that they did the most compassionate thing for their patients. But was it?

I know this is a touchy topic that will produce strong opposing opinions, but it’s still a good question: why was pulling the plug the right thing?

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Sidney Lumet
Writer Richard Dooling, Steven Schwartz
Actors James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren
Country Australia, United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm