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The Hospital

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The Hospital
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PG,1hr 43min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1971
Director:
Arthur Hiller
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes  ...more
Synopsis: Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and ineptness of the staff that surrounds him, the lonely Bock finds himself falling for Barbara (Diana Rigg), the daughter of Edmund (Barnard Hughes), a patient. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer has begun stalking ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
A piece of early '70s social commentary and a de facto warm-up for Network (1976), writer Paddy Chayefsky takes on the medical system in The Hospital (1971). Devised as a satire that could later pass for social realism in an HMO-ruled culture, the matter-of-fact pre-credits voice-over accounting how medical malfeasance resulted in an empty bed for a sexual tryst caustically sets the tone for what follows. ... Full Review
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George C. Scott
Dr. Herbert Bock
Diana Rigg
Barbara Drummond
Barnard Hughes
Mr. Drummond
Nancy Marchand
Head Nurse
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