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Checking Out

R Released Apr 21, 1989 1h 36m Comedy List
20% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 23% Audience Score 100+ Ratings
An airline executive (Jeff Daniels) with a wife (Melanie Mayron) and two children becomes a hypochondriac afraid of dying. Read More Read Less

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The problem with Checking Out is that it provides us with fears we can understand and responses that seem to have been phoned in from a sitcom. Rated: 2/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews An absolutely interminable piece of work... Rated: 1/4 Jun 3, 2010 Full Review Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Rated: 2/5 Oct 5, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jun 28, 2005 Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Too broad, ultimately botched, but constantly watchable. Rated: 3/5 Jul 8, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A lot of misfires here, but, there's some good biting black comedy in it all. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Jeff Daniels struggles with hypochondria in a black comedy. It's a poorly made movie that is neither funny or watchable. Let's just say that there is a good reason why you probably have never heard of it. (First and only viewing - 7/15/2008) Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member a bad comedy that never really got funny and seemed to last 45 minutes to an hour longer than it really did, I mean it just drug on and on. A very poor effort by whoever the director was. Daniels was ok, but the movie was just a waste of time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Not worth the time. Its boring and nothing special. I wasn't even that entertained with this. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member As someone also obssessed with mortality, this film had me rolling around laughing. I could see my paranoia reflected back at me. I love Jeff Daniels, and he certainly doesn't disappoint in this movie. This movie has very few fans... maybe only 2. I'm one of them. I find it hysterical, I really don't know why more people don't love it too. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Walking the fine line between comedy and introspection regarding the topics of anxiety and hypochondria, Checking Out is quite possibly one of the worst films ever created -- a point evidenced in its $13,000 domestic box office gross Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An airline executive (Jeff Daniels) with a wife (Melanie Mayron) and two children becomes a hypochondriac afraid of dying.
Director
David Leland
Producer
Ben Myron
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 21, 1989, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.7K
Runtime
1h 36m
Sound Mix
Surround
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)