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Critical Condition 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Michael Apted Produced by Robert Cort
Ted FieldWritten by Denis Hamill
John Hamill
Alan SwyerStarring Richard Pryor
Rachel Ticotin
Rubén Blades
Joe Mantegna
Bob Dishy
Sylvia Miles
Bob Saget
Garrett MorrisMusic by Alan Silvestri Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date(s) January 16, 1987 Running time 100 min. Language English Box office $20,240,502 Critical Condition is a 1987 comedy film starring Richard Pryor.
Synopsis
Pryor plays Kevin Lennihan, a con man who is framed in a jewel robbery. In order to escape custody, he fakes insanity, then poses as surgeon Dr. Eddie Slattery at a local hospital when he switches places with the administrator Arthur Chambers (Joe Mantegna). During a flood and a power outage that follows, Kevin takes charge of the hospital and tries to maintain some order in his unorthodox way.
Cameos
Actor Wesley Snipes has small role as an ambulance driver.
Randall "Tex" Cobb guest stars playing Richard Pryor's insane friend Box
External links
Michael Apted 1970s 1980s Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) • Continental Divide (1981) • Gorky Park (1983) • Firstborn (1984) • Bring on the Night (1985) • Critical Condition (1987) • Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)1990s Class Action (1991) • Thunderheart (1992) • Incident at Oglala † (1992) • Blink (1994) • Moving the Mountain (1994) • Nell (1994) • Extreme Measures (1996) • Inspirations (1997) • Me & Isaac Newton † (1999) • The World Is Not Enough (1999)2000s Enigma (2001) • Enough (2002) • Amazing Grace (2006) • The Official Film of the 2006 FIFA World Cup † (2007, video)2010s The Power of the Game (2010) • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)Television "The Dustbinmen" (1968) • "ITV Playhouse" (1968 – 1971) • "Big Breadwinner Hog" (1969) • Up series † (1970 – ) • "The Lovers" (1970) • "ITV Saturday Night Theatre" (1971 – 1972) • "Follyfoot" (1971 – 1972) • "Play for Today" (1972 – 1977) • Joy (1972) • "Thirty-Minute Theatre" (1972) • Buggins' Ermine (1972) • "Black and Blue" (1973) • "Shades of Greene" (1975) • "Laurence Olivier Presents" (1976) • "The Paradise Run" (1976) • P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) • Haunted: Poor Girl (1986) • The Long Way Home (1989) • Always Outnumbered (1998) • Nathan Dixon (1999) • "Married in America" (2002 – 2006) • "Blind Justice" (2005) • "Rome" (2005) • "What About Brian" (2006)†indicates documentaryCategories:- English-language films
- 1987 films
- American films
- Paramount Pictures films
- Hospital films
- 1980s comedy films
- American comedy films
- Films shot in North Carolina
- 1980s comedy film stubs
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