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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305476092
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305476098
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: August 03, 1999
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 51564
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - What do you think of triage now?
It's interesting to see all these reviews focused in on the "ludicrous" plot hook -- a sick child is allowed to get worse and die in an ER waiting room. I wonder what all the reviewers think now, when (as I write this) leading the news is the story of a woman who died in an ER waiting room waiting to be seen.
Not that this small bit of vindication helps the movie in any way. It's still meandering, rough, less than compelling.
Rating: - Odd combination of credible and non-credible
MAYBE, if this film was set in the 1960s--when the novel was actually written (1966, in fact)--it would have been much more credible--MAYBE. As another reviewer points out, the central incident of the film that triggers all the ensuing events which occurs in a hospital emergency room is just too ridiculous to be believable. In that ER, two of the main characters--a married couple played by Ben Kingsley and Amy Irving--are told that their very sick son is not any more important than any other patient ... Read More
Rating:  - If you totally suspend belief at premise, maybe decent
Did anyone who worked on this film ever hear of the concept of TRIAGE? No, I am not a healthcare professional, but I have been in ERs in three states myself or with family and friends. No patient is ever brought in and told to just 'sign in, we'll be with you in a minute.' You're interviewed by a triage nurse who assigns you a rating based on battlefield assessments:
1. They'll recover on their own if they're not seen to. This category has the longest to wait.
2. They'll ... Read More
Rating:  - FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If nothing else, THE CONFESSION is an honest attempt to look at our society and see what is really important: when healthcare professionals take their jobs seriously, when does a cigarette break justify the death of a five year old with a burst appendix? Ben Kingsley stars as a father whose son dies in his arms in a taxi on the way to another hospital, because the clerk, doctor and nurse in the emergency room failed to meet their responsibilities. While a bit overblown in execution, the movie achieves ... Read More
Rating: - Almost deliberately disappointing
"The Confession" is a respectably good legal-thriller plot marred by wooden, stereotyped acting and directing. I'm not a bit surprised to learn that the director works mostly in TV - this has the feel of one of those USA Network evening dramas, all slick surfaces and cardboard characters. The plot appeals to the viewer's intelligence at the same time the presentation insults it.
Alec Baldwin, as expected, does creditably well in the role of Alec Baldwin, but the "A" list aspirations of the picture ... Read More
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