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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
...Lists from the Movie Doc

Hippocratic Oath

...the movies everyone should swear by
  • Casablanca
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • City Lights
  • Citizen Kane
  • Manhattan
  • Chinatown
  • Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Rio Grande
  • Schindler's List

Lobotomies

...films you don't need a brain to enjoy
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Airplane!
  • Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
  • Used Cars
  • The Great Race
  • Young Frankenstein
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • National Lampoon's Animal House
  • Caddyshack
  • Up the River

Chronic Obesity

...overblown epics collapsing under their own weight
  • A Passage to India
  • Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Cleopatra
  • The Ten Commandments
  • The Bible
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Wyatt Earp
  • How the West Was Won
  • The Razor's Edge (1984)
  • Gandhi

Cement Burns

...films so bad you'd rather lose skin than be forced to watch
  • Ice Castles
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Big Top Pee-Wee
  • Beastmaster
  • Masters of the Universe
  • Gymkata
  • Red Sonja
  • Over the Top
  • Six Pack
  • Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

Second Opinions

...films you might want to take another look at
  • Things Change
  • The Stuntman
  • Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
  • One Two Three
  • The Twelve Chairs
  • Wild at Heart
  • The Professional
  • Natural Born Killers
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • The Trouble with Harry

The Good Doctors...

...worthy medical professionals on the big screen
  • The Hospital
  • M*A*S*H
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Captain Newman, M.D.
  • The Doctor
  • Doc Hollywood
  • House Calls
  • Nell
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Abominable Dr. Phibes

....And the Bad...

...not-so-worthy medical professionals captured on film
  • Vital Signs
  • Bad Medicine
  • Critical Condition
  • Like Father, Like Son
  • Young Doctors in Love
  • Tammy and the Doctor
  • Malice
  • Color of Night
  • City of Joy
  • Flatliners

Healing the Sick

...illness and infirmity as plot devices
  • Six Weeks
  • Dying Young
  • An Affair To Remember
  • Magnificent Obsession
  • Awakenings
  • Inside Moves
  • Whose Life Is It Anyway?
  • Steel Magnolias
  • The Waterdance
  • Outbreak

Referrals for...

  • ...emergency surgery? Donald Sutherland in M*A*S*H
  • ...psychological counseling? Gregory Peck in Captain Newman, M.D.
  • ...strange disease research? Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak
  • ...gourmet catering? Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs
  • ...general practice? Robert Preston in S.O.B.
  • ...sports medicine? Burt Lancaster in Field of Dreams
  • ...veterinary care? Rex Harrison in Doctor Dolittle
  • ...nursing care? Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • ...nonhuman practice? Kim Stanley in Planet of the Apes
  • ...obstetrics? Robin Williams in Nine Months

Sound Mind and Body

...the best mental patients getting treatment
  • Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs
  • Will Sampson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis in Strange Brew
  • Herbert Lom in Revenge of the Pink Panther
  • Frances Farmer in Frances
  • Cheech Marin in Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
  • Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys

Raving Madmen

...crazy folks on the loose
  • Gary Oldman in The Professional
  • Robin Williams in The Fisher King
  • Robert De Niro in Cape Fear
  • Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter
  • Telly Savales in The Dirty Dozen
  • Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest
  • John Lithgow in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • RIchard Widmark in Kiss of Death (1947)
  • Peter Lorre in M
  • Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers

The Lame and the Infirmed

...best handicapped portrayals by able-bodied actors
  • Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump
  • Jon Voight in Coming Home
  • Audery Hepburn in Wait Until Dark
  • Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish
  • Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo
  • Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
  • Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker
  • Amy Irving in Voices
  • Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
  • Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda

Optic Traumas

...movies with scenes that are too painful to watch
  • Sharky's Machine - torture on the boat
  • The Accused - the rape in the bar
  • Deliverance - the stop at sodomy point
  • Sophie's Choice - the choosing a child scene
  • Glory - the whipping scene
  • Diehard - the glass removal scene
  • Reservoir Dogs - "Stuck in the Middle With You"
  • Halloween 2 - the emergency room scene
  • I Spit On Your Grave - the entire movie
  • Psycho 2 - grabbing at the knife

Dysphasia

...the inability to swallow, incredibly implausible casting
  • Edward G. Robinson in The Ten Commandments
  • John Wayne in Genghis Khan
  • Mac Davis in The Sting, Part 2
  • Lee Majors in The Norseman
  • Marlon Brando in The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • Elvis Presley in Change of Habit
  • Kevin Costner in Robin Hood
  • Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction
  • Harry Hamlin in Clash of the Titans
  • Patrick Wayne in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Otitis Media

...painful ringing in the ears or horrible musical casting
  • Clint Eastwood & Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon
  • Albert Finney in Annie
  • Walter Matthau in Hello, Dolly!
  • Rod Steiger in Oklahoma
  • Bert Reynolds in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • Sylvester Stallone in Rhinestone
  • Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2
  • Kurt Russell in The One & Only Original Family Band
  • Michael Beck in Xanadu

Tragic, Tragic Accidents

...it shoulda never happened
  • Gymkata
  • Barbwire
  • She-Devil
  • Xanadu
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Masters of the Universe
  • Rollerboogie
  • Two of a Kind
  • Perfect
  • Poison Ivy

DNR ( Do Not Resuscitate )

Film sequels that should have been allowed to die away gracefully
  • Jaws 2,3,4
  • Rocky 2,3,4,5,6
  • Grease 2
  • Poltergeist 2,3
  • Friday the 13th infinity
  • Nightmare on Elm Street 2,3,4,5,6
  • Smokey and the Bandit 2,3
  • Cannonball Run 2
  • Gremlins 2
  • Halloween 2,3,4,5

Call 911

...ambulances featured in key film scenes
  • Mother, Jugs & Speed
  • Disorderlies
  • The Ambulance
  • Hudson Hawk
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie
  • Backdraft
  • Battle Circus
  • The Razor's Edge

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Summer Preview '01 | Academy Awards 2001 | The 5th Annual Loscars | Oscar Noms: Reaction 2001 | Excused from School | Matthau Remembered | Summer Preview 2000 | Academy Awards 2000 | The 4th Annual Loscars | Oscar Noms: Reaction 2000 | 2000 Predictions | Universal Soldiers | Happy Birthday, Hitch | Goodbye, MST3K | Try to Remember | Summer Preview '99 | Curse of the TV Movies | Academy A-snores | The 3rd Annual Loscars | Waiting and Waiting | Gene Siskel Tribute | Now I'm Mad (Oscar Nominations '99) | 1998 Flashback | Remembering Roddy McDowall | Repeating History | The Movie Manifesto | Fall Preview '98 | The Day Eli P. Kingsley Came to Town | Field of Dreams | Lizard Season | Grey April, Dark Hearts | Oscar Reactions '98 | The Greatest Actor You've Never Heard Of | The 2nd Annual Loscars | Oscar Noms | Unsportsmanlike Conduct | 1997: Gone But Not Forgotten | A Note to Nick | The Quaid Curse | Love, Law & Lake Tahoe | Talking Movies | Black & White World | Alternative Medicine: Waiting for Guffman | In Memoriam, Burgess Meredith | Fall Preview '97 | Jimmy Stewart, R.I.P. | The Cowboy Way | A Sporting Chance | In Praise of the VCR | Summer Preview '97 | Alternative Medicine: That Thing You Do! | The Rise and Fall...of Dan Aykroyd | Post-Oscar Traumatic Syndrome | The Loscars | Lost Minds?! | It's Academic! | Remembering Vincent Price | Movie Going Rules | Doctor's Orders

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