Main Cast: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo
Release Year: 1982
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Review
Garry Marshall spent the '70s and early '80s overseeing two of the more wholesome, successful sitcoms in television history, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Young Doctors in Love is the work of a director exploding with the need to get away with material unimaginable on the small screen. This raucous comedy takes advantage of its hospital setting by having as many body function jokes thought possible in the pre-Farrelly days. That many of these jokes work (at least many more than one might expect) has much to do with the amazing cast Marshall put together. Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Hector Elizando, and Pamela Reed all bring a professionalism to this material that helps them sell the comedy without overplaying how silly all of it is. Michael Richards, playing an unlucky hitman, made his film debut here, getting many laughs with broad physical comedy. What makes Young Doctors in Love worth seeing is that even though the material is beneath the filmmakers and actors, they never play down to the audience. The jokes are dumb, but the performances are not. This is one smart dumb comedy. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Dabney Coleman - Joseph Prang; Taylor Negron - Phil Burns; Saul Rubinek - Floyd Kurtzman; Pat Collins - Walter Rist; Ted McGinley - Bucky DeVol; Rick Overton - Thurman Flicker; Titos Vandis - Sal Bonafetti; Kyle Heffner - Charles Litto; Crystal Bernard - Julie; Gary Friedkin - Milton Chamberlain; Jamie Lyn Bauer; Ed Begley, Jr. - Young Simon's Father; Billie Bird - Flower Girl; Charlie Brill - Doctor Quick; Tom Byrd - New Intern; Hamilton Camp - Oscar Katz; Frank Campanella - Young Simon's Grandfather; Stuart Charno - Warren the Orderly; Shad Davis - Little Boy in Park; Lou Evans - Nervous Patient; George Furth - Disgusting Looking Patient; Monique Gabrielle; Cynthia Geary - Girl with broken nose; Becky Gonzalez - Perez; Toni Hudson - Bunny; Larry "Flash" Jenkins - Paul the Orderly; Art Kassul - Cop with Assault Victim; Dave Ketchum - Balloon Man; Deborah Lacey - Phone Stripper; Coleen Maloney - Nurse Jones; Kathi Marshall - Usherette #2; Lori Marshall - Football Playing Maid; Kimberly McArthur - Jyll Amato; Nicholas Mele - Jerry; Rose Michtom - Mrs. Pierce; John Moschitta, Jr. - Complaining Man; Frank Pesce - Rocco; Pamela Reed - Nurse Sprockett; Reynaldo Rey - Cicerelli; Tessa Richarde - Rocco's Wife; Michael Richards - Malamud; Lynn Stalmaster; John Steadman - 82 Year Old Man; Lynne Stewart - Nurse Thatcher; Esther Sutherland - Nurse Willa Mae; Michael Elias - Spectator; Haunani Minn - Nurse Chang; Dottie Archibald - Woman who almost got licked; Neal Kaz - Ward Patient #1; Lisa Lindgren - Usherette #1; Scott Marshall - Boy with Fly; James O'Connell - Blind Officer; Walter Scott - Bed Mechanic; David Friedman - Young Simon; Toni Howard; Keith A. Wester - Hospital Announcer; Nancy Klopper; Arnold Margolin - Doctor Whitehat; Hillary Horan - Nurse Theresa; Sonya Jennings - Nurse Nina
Credit
Tracy Bousman - Art Director, Nick Abdo - Associate Producer, Jeffrey Ganz - Associate Producer, Lynn Stalmaster - Casting, Toni Howard - Casting, Nancy Klopper - Casting, Michael Grillo - First Assistant Director, Garry Marshall - Director, Dov Hoenig - Editor, Sidney Wolinsky - Editor, Maurice Jarre - Composer (Music Score), William Badalato - Production Designer, Michael Baugh - Production Designer, Polly Platt - Production Designer, Jerry Bruckheimer - Producer, Garry Marshall - Producer, Keith A. Wester - Sound/Sound Designer, Michael Elias - Screenwriter, Stu Krieger - Screenwriter, Rich Eustis - Screenwriter, Richard L. Anderson - Supervising Sound Editor
