Even if it were all staged, Exit: The Right to Die would be a profound and moving experience.
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03/01/07
Exit: The Right to Die (2006)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 8 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Rated: Not Rated
Theatrical Release: Oct 25, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: This powerful documentary focuses on a Swiss organization that helps the terminally ill prepare themselves for assisted suicide, which is legal in that country. Rather than being bleak or depressing, the film focuses on the uplifting and freeing aspects of men and women taking control of... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Reviews
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If the film’s lack of emotionalism deprives it of dramatic energy, it also forces viewers to react to a highly charged issue intellectually and on the merits, rather than out of manipulated passion.
10/30/06
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It's not the kind of documentary that leaves you feeling like you've only heard one side of the debate, that certain unsettling truths have been tactically avoided.
10/25/06
Top Critic
This earnest documentary about assisted suicide plays like a stodgy promotional film for the Swiss organization Exit A.D.M.D., which helps terminally ill patients end their own lives.
10/24/06
Top Critic
[Exit] makes a strong implicit case for a cause supported by a growing number of Americans.
10/24/06
Top Critic
No one here gets out alive, as Jim Morrison put it before the End, though in Switzerland one at least has the chance of booking a smoother passage from insufferable pain to whatever comes next.
10/24/06
Top Critic
For our information, Fernand Melgar's Exit attempts to dispel misconceptions surrounding euthanasia.
10/13/06
A talky but vivid documentary exhibiting the work ofan organization in Switzerland that helps people die,i.e. assisted suicide.
10/09/06
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