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John Collee (novel)
John Collee (screenplay)
Release Date:
15 November 1991 (USA) more
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Trust me. I'm a doctor. more
Plot:
A lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade. full summary | add synopsis
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will make you wince more (7 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul McGann | ... | Matthew Harris |
 | Amanda Donohoe | ... | Christine Taylor |
| Frederick Treves | ... | Dr. Mumford |
 | Tom Wilkinson | ... | Dr. Thorn |
| Barbara Leigh-Hunt | ... | Celia Mumford |
| Jimmy Yuill | ... | Alec Moran |
| Mark Lewis Jones | ... | Dr. Lloyd |
| John Warnaby | ... | Dr. Hammond |
| Alexandra Mathie | ... | Beverley |
| Oliver Ford Davies | ... | Coroner |
| Frank Baker | ... | Happy |
| Clive Rowe | ... | Ants |
| Robert Oates | ... | Head Porter |
| Karen Ascoe | ... | Alison |
| Dale Rapley | ... | Dr. Simon Hennessey |
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105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:M | Iceland:12 | UK:15 | USA:R | Germany:16
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THE GREAT PRETENDER more
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A nifty little psychological thriller about a fake doctor in an English hospital. His first night on the emergency room is a tautly paced piece of film-making as he knows nothing about how to help accident victims, one who has a nasty looking cut on his hand and who the "doctor" ignorantly and with frightening incompetence, grabs the wrong way. It's wincing to watch. The movie doesn't take too much advantage of the most obvious situation, but delves into the hospital culture and relations among doctors, as well his relationship with a nurse. It's the girls all along that he really wanted, and being a doctor was a sure ticket to a more lively sex life. He was an orderly before, working in a hospital laundry room, and though quite intelligent (maybe he could have actually become a doctor the old-fashioned way), has a mean and devious streak in him, that one senior physician detects right off, but that eludes others. The movie could have gone for more shock value with his encounters with patients, but instead develops his weird character living a double life.