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Actors: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks, Jeffrey Wright
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Critical Care |
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CRITICAL CARE is a movie directed by Sidney Lumet in 1997. James Spader is a young doctor working in the intensive care unit of an eastern hospital. He gets sexually involved with one of the daughters of a comatose patient. Soon she is blackmailing the poor James Spader in order to make him cease artificially prolounging her father's life. Is it because she cares about her father or because she wants to have a full share of his multimillion dollar fortune. A good black comedy.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Critical Care |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Struggle with:
- Sister
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- (General) search for meaning/identity
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- sex with client/patient
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- doctor
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Woman/class/friends story?
- story of "the rich"
Story of city/rural life?
- Big City
Culture of surrounding area:
- American Northeast
Druggie/Wino problems?
- alcohol
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
unclothed?
- partially transparent clothes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
- Chicago
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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