The Hospital
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Movie Reviews of The Hospital
Movie Review: Paddy, by George
Summary: 5 Stars
We need to bring Paddy Chayefsky back to life, but it'll never happen if he ends up in this place. The novelist, playwright, and screenwriter penned some of the best and most acidic scripts in Hollywood history, including "Marty," "The Bachelor Party," "Network," and even the underrated "Altered States." Few if any, however, were better than "The Hospital," a dark comedy about a Manhattan hospital being terrorized by a mad killer. George C. Scott absolutely devours the screen as Dr. Herb Bock, the suicidal chief surgeon who has lost his wife, his kids, and his desire to serve mankind, until that desire gets rekindled-along with other desires-by Diana Rigg, whose visions tell her to get her father out of Scott's hospital before the machinery of medicine does away with him. It's refreshing to revisit highbrow satires such as this, from an age when scriptwriters were allowed to assume intelligence in the viewer and the ideas don't seem watered down for consumption by the lowest common denominator. The mysterious murderer is a bit of a throwaway, but the inhumanity of modern healing was never so bleakly funny. Or, considering that it's only gotten worse in the last 35 years, so scary.Movie Review: "WE CURE NOTHING, WE HEAL NOTHING!"
Summary: 5 Stars
When you talk about the one motion picture that fully encapsulated all the angst and nihilism of the `70's generation you're talking about Paddy Chayefsky's brilliantly written black comedy, `The Hospital' which was released in `70.
A contemporary, dysfunctional, urban hospital serves as the microcosm of America's failure to deal with not only the physical maladies of the twentieth century, but the mental and emotional illnesses as well. George C. Scott stars in the role of Dr. Herbert Bock, hospital administrator. Dr. Bock is already tittering on the edge of insanity. His wife has left him, he's estranged from his children and he's in the grips of a mid-life crisis causing him to call everything he once held dear into question. When a bizarre series of unexplained deaths begin to occur within the ranks of the hospital staff Dr. Bock is left to ponder the nature of sanity and whether he can continue to function in a world gone mad.
With great performances by George C. Scott and the lovely Brit Diana Rigg, `The Hospital' is a thought-provoking film that will elicit discussion and debate. Watch it with a friend.
Movie Review: A professional perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
Just a note to wholeheartedly agree with Archmaker "GEO" and ask Mr. Lyons from Reno what film he watched. As an emergency physician for the last twenty years, The Hospital is, of course, one of my favorite films, and as a part-time screenwriter, Paddy Chayefsky is perhaps my favorite scribe. This film nails not only the lunatic, out-of-control atmosphere one can experience in a large hospital, but the dialouge is precious and its medical veracity reaches levels rarely heard in Hollywood. The off handed remarks about " a sedated body lying around in radiology for five hours wouldn't be unusual" or patients being "forgotten to death" or the "victim of the great American plague, vestigial identity" are more true than even Mr. Cheyevsky could know. This film is not a video pin-up of Ms. Rigg, although her comfortable-with-my-nuttiness demeanor plays the perfect foil to Scott's cantankerous Dr. Bock. And let's change the Chayefsky triple crown to a grand slam with the edition of Marty, his other Oscar winner. I love this film, which is as relevant today as it was 35 years ago.
Movie Review: Black, Black, Black and hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
I go through 99.9 percent of today's comedies without cracking as much as a smile. That's why I've long ago given up on the comedies section of the movie rentals store. Yet there may be a dozen or so sequences from a few comedies that crack me up, despite the many times I've seen them. This movie has at least three or four or them. While Catch 22 holds my all-time favorite comedy sequence: The exchange between Art Garfunkel and the old guy in the brothel, The Hospital is more subtle, and as black as it gets. Watch for Scott's line: "Release him . . . before we kill him."
P.S. I just now talked myself into slipping it in my vcr again.
Movie Review: Great 70's movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a big G C Scott fan. He was so good at both comedy & drama. I was surprised to come across a movie he'd made that I'd never heard a word about. But, this was released in the early 70's when I was tot so it was a pleasant surprise to find this one listed on Amazon. If you love your a puzzler & don't mind mixing in comedy you'll enjoy this one. There is a mystery here but for the most part the funnier lines stick out in the film. Classic Scott performance. There are murders going on in the hospital while the staff seems to be falling apart. Also an attraction between Riggs & Scott. It all mixes in to make for a very good film.