Hospital
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Frederick Wiseman
Margot Anderson
William Brayne
David Martin
Robbin Mason
Susan Primm
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Synopsis
At New York's Metropolitan Hospital, a female physician comforts an elderly man who is embarrassed to describe his symptoms; a diabetic decries her inability to work; a distraught daughter kisses her suffering mother, the victim of a heart attack; an ambulance driver searches for a hospital which will accept his passenger; a middle-class adolescent suffers the effects of mescaline; a Puerto Rican widower, concerned for his children, resists hospitalization; a psychiatrist advises a black homosexual on welfare payments and tries to place the youth in a private room; a nurse, caring for a 2-year-old boy, the victim of a 15-foot fall and the ward of an alcoholic grandmother, considers taking the child home with her; and, in the chapel, a Catholic priest instructs patients to consider God's greatness and man's insignificance.
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First shown on NET on February 2, 1970.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1970
Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman) March 18-31, 1976.
Shown in New York City (Film Forum) as part of program "60's Verite" November 14 - December 11, 1997.
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Selected in 1994 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1970
