The Heart Specialist

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Movie Info

After following a former girlfriend to Florida, Ray Howard (Brian J. White) winds up as an intern in a not-so-prestigious teaching hospital. An unapologetic Lothario, Ray tries to work his charms on nurse Donna (Zoe Saldana), but she's already involved with the chief resident, Dr. Sidney Zachary (Wood Harris), who is also Ray's instructor. Sidney, who moonlights as a standup comic, decides that Ray needs to learn about true love, as well as medicine.
  • Rating:
    R (Language|Sexual Content)
  • Genre:
    romance
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Dennis Cooper
  • Producer:
    Dennis Cooper, Kristin Overn
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     wide
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $1.1M
  • Runtime:
  • Production Co:
    Elevate the Game Entertainment

Cast & Crew

Wood Harris
Dr. Sidney Zachary
Zoe Saldana
Donna
Brian White
Dr. Ray Howard
Mýa
Valerie
Scott Paulin
Dr. Graves
David S. Lee
Dr. Propper
Kenneth Choi
Mitchell Kwan
Irene Tsu
Mrs. Olson
Richard Voigts
Dr. Manson
Tony Perez
Dr. Gutierrez
Dennis Cooper
Director
Dennis Cooper
Writer
Dennis Cooper
Producer
Kristin Overn
Producer
Tree Adams
Original Music
Christopher Faizi
Original Music
Yasu Tanida
Cinematographer
Juan Garza
Film Editor
Richard Hicks
Casting
Alethea Root
Production Design
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Critic Reviews for The Heart Specialist

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  • A ploddingly paced and tonally dissonant mix of broadly played sitcom-style humor and shameless heartstring-yanking.

    January 18, 2011

    Joe Leydon

    Variety

  • Amateurish doctors-in-training comedy/drama too blatantly reveals its television inspirations.

    January 18, 2011 | Full Review…

    Frank Scheck

    Hollywood Reporter

  • Dr. Dennis Cooper must have knocked off this script while watching "Scrubs" re-runs in the break room. This is "Scrubs" told totally from a black doctor's point of view.

    January 14, 2011 | Rating: 1/4

    Roger Moore

    Orlando Sentinel
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Audience Reviews for The Heart Specialist

  • Aug 01, 2012
    If Tyler Perry decided to make a bad parody of "Grey's Anatomy" meets "Funny People", then you would have "The Heart Specialist". This is a black "dramedy" that I had never heard of, and there is a good reason for that, it isn't good. Wood Harris stars as a Dr. who moonlights as a comedian, trying to bring laughter into people's lives as medicine. Only problem is, he nor the movie, are funny at all. The only laughs come from a female patient who is a little mental. This wants to be something along the line of a Tyler Perry movie, but fails miserably. The characters are all lame and one dimensional, and the story just isn't that good.
    Everett J Super Reviewer
  • Mar 15, 2011
    Tons of celebs in this film: Mya, Method Man, Leon, Jasmine Guy. Still not a good reason to see this film. The jokes reach out and almost achieve funny but always fall short of the goal. It drags out, its corny, the funny is flat, the music is blah. Just don't waste your time.
    Remi L Super Reviewer
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