Behind the scenes at a V.A. hospital where a team of young, dedicated, superbly skilled doctors (Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson, et al.), but also swashbuckling, flirting, wisecracking, rule-breaking, speech-making doctors, are impeded but not completely prevented from practicing medicine by a budget-balancing, nickel-counting administrator and "a whole new disease called the Creeping Cutback" (small sample of how these medicos express themselves). They generally behave, when not actually performing unauthorized bypass operations, like frat boys on Initiation Night. (The initiatee would be money-hungry newcomer Sutherland, who, once initiated, demonstrates how much he really cares by ordering up a series of medical tests for a man already dead, and then by threatening to break the neck of an underling if his orders should not be carried out.) Director Howard Deutch, who honed his Little Man sympathies under John Hughes, cannot set forth a Right Attitude without raising his voice and glancing over his shoulder to see if he's making a favorable impression. Kathy Baker, John Mahoney. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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