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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
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7.0Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Released: 1981-12-02119 minDir: John BadhamDramaBudget: $11.5MBox office: $6.1M
Cast
- Richard Dreyfuss as Ken Harrison
- John Cassavetes as Dr. Michael Emerson
- Christine Lahti as Dr. Clare Scott
- Bob Balaban as Carter Hill
- Kenneth McMillan as Judge Wyler
- Kaki Hunter as Mary Jo Sadler
Themes
- paraplegic
- artist
- paralysis
- car accident
- suicide thoughts
- legal battle
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
3,590 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
70%
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Suicide
- Director
- John Badham
- Screenwriter
- Brian Clark
- Composer
- Arthur B. Rubinstein
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- Mario Tosi
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 718279
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1982-05-14
- film editor
- Frank Morriss
- title
- Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in environment
- hospital
- review score
- 70%
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