The Doctor

Starring William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth

Perkins. Produced by Laura Ziskin. Directed by.’

Randa Haines. Rating: PG 13. Running time: 123

minutes.

Jack McKee (Hurt) isa skilled surgeon ina
teaching hospitat who views his patients as just so
many body parts. Not that this particularly bothers

him; every doctor knows it's professional suicide to

become involved with your patients, a lesson he
passes on to his students. Then the unthinkable. ;
happens, and Jack finds himself on the other side
of the scalpel.

Diagnosed with a malignant growth i in his throat,
Jack descends from the ranks of prestigious .
surgeon to ordinary patient. Now he's just another
name on a medical file, and he gets a first-hand
account of what it feels like to be stripped of all
basic dignity and respect. His anger at suddenly
becoming a non-person spills over onto his wife
{Lahti), ultimately threatening his marriage.

Then he meets Jane (Perkins), a young woman

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dying of a brain tumor. And from her Jack learns a
valuable lesson about living and dying and caring
abdut other people.

This movie is based on a true story.

Other People's Money

Starring Danny De Vito, Gregory Peck,
Penelope Ann Millar. Produced by Norman
Jawison, Rie Kidney. Directed by Norman Jewison.
Rating: R. Running time: 101 minutes. -

Lawrence “Larry the Liquidator" Garfield (De
Vito) is a Wall Street buccaneer who's infamous for
devouring companies. This time he's got his eye
on New England Wire & Cable, an 81-year-old.
family-run company in Rhode Island. But it looks
like Larry may have finally met his match. To arm

~ against a takeover, Andrew Jorgeson, the family
patriarch (Peck), hires Kate Sullivan (Miller), a
high-stakes atiornay with enough cunning to outwit

even Larry.

And so the game begins. As Larry and Kate
~ spar with one another, Larry goes into a tallspin of
love and lust. On Wall Street anything is
negotiable and money is the ultimate seduction,
but Larry's got bigger fish to fry this time. It's
enough to make him forget all about his Naw
England Wire & Cable. Well... almost.

This is not one of De Vito's better films, but it
does have its moments.

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