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In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is struggling to keep up with the bigger and better funded competition after a law in Los Angeles decrees that the first ambulance to arrive at the scene of a distress call gets the job. F&B's best driver is Mother (Bill Cosby), a free-wheeling ambulance jockey who likes to drink beer and play dance music while he makes his rounds. Mother's
Mar 9, 2004
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Raunchy ambulance comedy wavers between jocular fun, misplaced melodrama, and morbid stupidity.
An entirely OK 70s ride, better, perhaps, in retrospect.
The nightly travails of an ambulance crew stand in for the bigotry, fear, and paranoia of a nation in flux.
This was a good classic Saturday Morning matinee movie. This movie shows the humorous and tragic side on how tough it is to be an ambulance employee. See it...it is a classic.
October 11, 2008Super Reviewer
An engaging, very funny black comedy gem from the mid 70s, expertly directed by the late Peter Yates. It concerns a privately owned ambulance company called the F&B ambulance company, and there intense competition with their rival the Unity ambulance company for a contract with City of Los Angeles. Bill Cosby steals
October 13, 2010Super Reviewer
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