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Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
Produced by | Sidney Lumet Steven Schwartz |
Written by | Steven Schwartz Richard Dooling (novel) |
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Cinematography | David Watkin |
Edited by | Tom Swartwout |
Distributed by | Mediaworks, Village Roadshow Pictures |
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107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million |
Box office | $271,000 |
Critical Care is a 1997 film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film is a satire about American medicine. The screenplay by Steven Schwartz is based on the novel by Richard Dooling and stars James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Anne Bancroft, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, and Albert Brooks. Rick Baker provided special makeup effects. The film is about a doctor who finds himself involved in a fight with two half sisters over the care of their ailing father.
Writer Steven Schwartz was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay.