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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792858249
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792858247
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 9995
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This black comedy features an alcoholic doctor-turned-administrator who tries to manage an overburdened and chaotic hospital with fatal results. Chayevsky is dead-on in this satire on modern bureaucracies. Sadly this cult favorite still rings true in our HMO age-but luckily laughter is still the best medicine. A biting satire THE HOSPITAL earned two Oscar nominations including George C. Scott for Best Actor.System Requirements:Starring: George C. Scott Diana Rigg Barnard Hughes Nancy Marchand Stockard Channing Directed By: Arthur Hiller Running Time: 103 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616895523 Manufacturer No: 1005221
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Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) wrote the script for this 1971 film that mixes--in Chayefsky tradition--absurdist satire with a touching, almost wistful love story. George C. Scott plays a cynical doctor battling bureaucratic superstructures on the one hand and hippie-dippy flakiness among some patients on the other. When he falls for an eccentric young woman (Diana Rigg) with an alternative view on everything, the road to liberation from burdensome responsibilities seems to open before him. Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) doesn't do much more than bring the screenplay to life, though he does create a persuasive sense of urban chaos in the setting. Scott gives a good, thoughtful performance. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Black, Black, Black and hilarious
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Black comedy with the great George C. Scott
A really black comedy of mad happenings in a big city hospital. Scott is the angry depressed suicidal chief of medicine, and he is magnificent. I got to see him and his wife onstage a few years before his death. Even then, tho he was obviously in poor health, he could grab the audience with a glance or a growl.
Rating: - Shattering commentary on modern medicine
George C. Scott plays Dr Herbert Bock chief of surgery at a big city hospital whose life is falling apart and whose commitment to the job is the only thing that keeps him going - but even this flame is flickering. Along comes hippie Diana Rigg to literally save his life and restore his passion for the fight.
This scenario gives master screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky ample opportunity to make shattering comments on modern medicine that are as pertinent now as they were then - if not more ... Read More
Rating: - A Scott masterpiece
If you enjoy watching George c. Scott act, then you'll love this movie. It deserves a lot more recognition than it got.
Rating: - "WE CURE NOTHING, WE HEAL NOTHING!"
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 ... Read More
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