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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
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Release Date: Dec 2, 1981 Wide

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Stepping into the role made famous on Broadway by Tom Conti, Richard Dreyfuss stars as a profoundly handicapped sculptor in Whose Life is it Anyway? Left a quadraplegic after an auto accident, the embittered Dreyfuss feels utterly useless, as both an artist and a human being. He doesn't want his family's love, or his doctor's care, or his nurse's ministrations. Dreyfuss simply wants to die-but this is impossible, given the legal state of things in the 1970s. Whose Life is It Anyway? may be the

R, 1 hr. 58 min.

Drama

Directed By: John Badham

In Theaters: Dec 2, 1981 Wide

On DVD: May 22, 2007

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss
Ken Harrison
John Cassavetes
Dr. Michael Emerson
Christine Lahti
Dr. Clare Scott
Bob Balaban
Catter Hill
Kenneth McMillan
Judge Wyler
Kaki Hunter
Mary Jo
Thomas Carter (II)
Orderly John
Alba Oms
Nurse Rodriguez
Janet Eilber
Pat
Alston Ahern
Day Nurse
Julie Andelman
Stella
Betty Cole
ICU Nurse
Jeffrey Combs
1st-Year Intern
Ward Costello
Mr. Eden
John Garber
Physiotherapist
Kathryn Grody
Mrs. Boyle
J.J. Johnston
Guard
Michael Steve Jones
Intern
Lissa Layng
Dorothy Meyer
Tony Simotes
Orthodpedic Surgeon
Wabei Slyolwe
Court Clerk
Mel Stewart
Dr. Barr
Alan Stock
3rd-Year Student
Robert S. Telford
Lyman Ward
Emergency-Room Doctor
George Wyner
Dr. Jacobs

Critic Reviews for Whose Life Is It Anyway?

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Talky, depressing, ranting.

October 15, 2004 Comment

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan Source: Kansas City Kansan

Focuses on the right to die wishes of a sculptor who's paralyzed and provides viewers an opportunity to test their attitudes toward making choices about life and death.

January 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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I had heard this was a very good play, but I was unaware it was a movie until recently. Dreyfuss gives both a charmingly hilarious and emotionally heart-wrenching performance as a quadriplegic sculptor who's lost the will to live. extremely thought-provoking as you find yourself never definitively taking a side all

May 30, 2009