Critical Condition

Critical Condition

1987 · 100 min · EN · R · 5.5 (57 votes)
Dir. Michael Apted · Starring Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Maria Cardinale, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy · Music Alan Silvestri

A comedy of epidemic proportions.

Comedy

Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.

VIBE

A whirlwind of mistaken identities and escalating absurdity. This film is a chaotic, laugh-out-loud farce fueled by a con artist's desperate attempts to survive a night in charge of a hospital during a storm. Pure, unadulterated comedic chaos.

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