Whose Life Is It Anyway

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Synopsis

Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss stars as talented young sculptor and teacher Ken Harrison--a man who confronts the medical and legal establishments with poignancy and humor when he asks Whose Life is it Anyway?

After a tragic accident, a surgical team heroically saves Harrison's life. But the sculptor will live the rest of his life as a quadriplegic: with his mind intact, but unable to do anything for himself and permanently confined to the inside of a hospital. Harrison, who was not asked and did not consent to the procedure, fights the doctors and the government for the right to end his life. Now, one man who can do nothing on his own other than think and speak rocks the moral and legal foundations of American society with the question Whose Life is it Anyway?

Based on the Tony Award winning play by Brian Clark

Movie info:

Release:

1981

Running Time:

118 min

Certificate:

Suitable only for 15 years and over

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Genre:

Drama

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Director:

John Badham

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Adam Kesher
A stunning and emotional masterpiece
06 December 2008
Years before Dr. Kevorkian brought the right to die into the national spotlight and made it a subject of public debate, Richard Dreyfuss's magnificent performance and Brian Clark's wonderful screenplay made the most cogent and realistic fictional argument I've seen on the issue. Dreyfuss is, without a doubt, a stellar performer -- in everything from "The Goodbye Girl" to "Mr. Holland's Opus," he consistently excels, but watching this movie again, I was flabbergasted by his ability. Using nothing but his head, he managed to evoke a stunning range of emotions. In my opinion, this is one of the better movies made in the last twenty years of the twentieth century.
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