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Critical Condition

  • Director: Michael Apted
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Farce, Medical Comedy
  • Themes: Assumed Identities, Cons and Scams
  • Main Cast: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy
  • Release Year: 1986
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

When a small-time businessman (Richard Pryor) needs a loan, he goes to a loan shark and ends up in jail on false pretenses. After feigning madness to get out, he is tossed into the mental ward of a hospital. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide

Cast

Sylvia Miles - Maggie; Joe Dallesandro - Stucky; Randall "Tex" Cobb - Box; Bob Saget - Dr. Joffe; Garrett Morris - Helicopter Junkie; Elizabeth Arlen - E.R. Nurse; Joe Aufiery - Prosecutor; Steve Boles - Guard; Kevin Campbell - Psycho Patient; Jude Ciccolella - Jack Kinney; Jack Hallett - Psycho Nurse; Lee Lawrence - Porno Shop Cop; Feiga Martinez - E.R. Nurse; Kate McGregor-Stewart - Nurse Mary; Michael Medeiros - Junkie; Bennie Moore - Guard; Jeffrey Pillars - Correction Officer; Jon Polito - Kline; Joe Ragno - Palazzi; Wesley Snipes - Ambulance Driver; Brian Tarantina - Tommy Pinto; Lou Walker - Patient with Leg Cast; Ralf Bode - Judge; Denis Hamill - Maintenance Man; John Hamill - Maintenance Man; Laura Bastianelli - Porno Shop Cop; Miriam Cruz - Hispanic Woman; Randell Haynes - Jackson; Lucius Houghton - Fido; Raymond Rosario - Boy in Waiting Room; Al White - Reggie; Margery Simkin

Credit

Eric Lerner - Associate Producer, Margery Simkin - Casting, Colleen Atwood - Costume Designer, Robert V. Girolami - First Assistant Director, Michael Apted - Director, Robert Lambert - Editor, Alan Silvestri - Composer (Music Score), John J. Lloyd - Production Designer, Ralf Bode - Cinematographer, Robert W. Cort - Producer, Ted Field - Producer, Robert Larson - Producer, George R. Nelson - Set Designer, Willie D. Burton - Sound/Sound Designer, Denis Hamill - Screen Story, John Hamill - Screen Story, Alan Swyer - Screen Story, Lowell Ganz - Screenwriter, Denis Hamill - Screenwriter, John Hamill - Screenwriter, Christopher Thompson - Screenwriter

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Critical Condition

The movie cover for Critical Condition.
Directed by Michael Apted
Produced by Robert Cort
Ted Field
Written by Denis Hamill
John Hamill
Alan Swyer
Starring Richard Pryor
Music by Alan Silvestri
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) January 1987
Running time 100 min.
Language English

Critical Condition is a 1987 comedy film starring Richard Pryor. Pryor plays Kevin Lenahan, a con man who is framed in a jewel robbery. In order to escape custody, he poses as surgeon Dr. Edward Slattery at a local hospital.

Actor Wesley Snipes has small role as an ambulance driver.

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