Whose Life Is It Anyway?

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Time Out says

To be fair, this is a livelier film than you'd expect, considering that its subject is a paralysed patient's struggle for the right to die. Badham has done his best to see that this adaptation of Brian Clark's play is filled with humour and emotion, and he's helped by a verbally energetic performance from Dreyfuss. But popular cinema is ultimately not about talk, and for all its verbal pyrotechnics, the film has the unmistakable narrative thinness of the filmed play. One of the results is that our sympathy for the eternally wisecracking Dreyfuss is stretched to the limit. 'So far as I am concerned' says Dreyfuss at one point, 'I am dead already'. Yet, despite some moving scenes, this is precisely what the film never conveys.

Author: DP

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Release details

UK release:

1981

Duration:

118 mins

Cast and crew

Cinematography:

Mario Tosi

Screenwriter:

Reginald Rose, Brian Clark

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Kenneth McMillan, Bob Balaban, Richard Dreyfuss, Christine Lahti, Janet Eilber, Kaki Hunter

Music:

Arthur Rubinstein

Director:

John Badham

Production Designer:

Gene Callahan

Editor:

Frank Morriss

Producer:

Lawrence P Bachmann

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  • i think the book is very touching and moving but i feel you truely see the true amount of anger and depression in the film more you see his frustration and the way he cares about his fiance bye telling her to live her life and that she shouldnt be held down to a 'cripple'... x thaks for reading malek rahimi 14 years old sibford school.

    malek Fri Jun 5 2009
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  • Sucks

    d Sun Dec 9 2007
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  • I would watch it again and again... Deeply touching and encouraging at the same time... Positive human relationships are still possible nowaadays...Life at all costs? That's a dilemma of most of us. Whay can't some feel differently? Maybe our free will is really only an illusion.

    erika Mon Dec 3 2007
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  • Pacat ca acest film nu este cunoscut...Il gasesc plin de realism iar subiectul poate fi si acum de actualitate.

    Manu Mon Jul 16 2007
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