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My Own Country

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My Own Country
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1hr 46min
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1998
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Synopsis: From the director of the acclaimed Salaam Bombay, My Own Country is based on the best-selling memoir of an Ethiopian doctor who treated HIV and AIDS patients in Johnson City in the smoky mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1985. The film narrates the tribulations of a physician who takes home the problems of his patients. He has no time for his wife or his son, who are slowly becoming strangers to him. He resists the temptations of a blond nurse but gets drunk 'like a man' in the garage of a auto repairman ... Full Synopsis
Featured Cast
Dr. Abraham Verghese
Vickie Talley
Lloyd Flanders
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