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6.5/10   278 votes
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Writers:

John Collee (novel)
John Collee (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

15 November 1991 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Tagline:

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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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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Additional Details

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Bristol, England, UK more


Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:

THE GREAT PRETENDER more


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will make you wince, 8 November 2007
8/10
Author: mgrindberg from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

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.

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