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The Ambulance

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When comic book artist Josh (Eric Roberts) meets Cheryl (Janine Turner), he immediately falls for her -- unfortunately, she immediately takes a fall as well, collapsing in the street. It turns out Cheryl is diabetic, so Josh calls for an ambulance and promises to meet her at the hospital. When he arrives, however, the hospital has no record of Cheryl. Josh looks for help, even going to a police lieutenant (James Earl Jones), but nobody believes his story, so he must find the ambulance himself.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews An absurd comical thriller that rocks. Rated: B+ Jan 17, 2008 Full Review Jules Brenner Cinema Signals Rated: 0/5 Jul 16, 2003 Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Pretty amusing, entertaining horror thriller from Larry Cohen. Rated: 3/5 Jan 8, 2003 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Weirdly entertaining B-movie oddity. Rated: 3/5 Jul 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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RyDawg084 Love this movie so much! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/22/23 Full Review Steve D Some good ideas and a bad script. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/09/23 Full Review Tom S I created a Rotten Tomatoes account just to give this movie a bad rating. The nonsensical dialogue was the worst I've heard in a long time. Every scene had hackneyed and ridiculously unrealistic elements. The only cool thing in the movie (besides Red Buttons, and possibly Stan Lee) was the old ambulance. I guess it was the real star, but (spoiler alert) even that was destroyed by this movie. I feel bad for anyone associated with making it. A true embarrassment to the industry. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/09/23 Full Review tiago d Como todos os filmes dessa época, historia simples, bons atores, nada de politica. Um filme super divertido. Só pegar a pipoca, se desligar do mundo e curtir! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review a.l.jude p Such a interesting plot gone awry just because sloppy acting by the lead character. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A young cartoonist Josh chats up a young woman named Cheryl in the street (the board at Gillette must be despairing at this) but when she collapses she is then taken to a nearby hospital in an ambulance which has been called for her. When Josh tries to track her down there appears to be no trace of her being taken to any hospital in an ambulance. Josh then learns that the same fate happened to Cheryl's roommate. Something fishy is going on. Does it have anything to do with that specific ambulance? With such a great premise I was expecting a cross between Coma and Maniac Cop. But, alas instead this is more like a TV movie that feels very slight and somewhat hollow. I was also expecting more as this was directed by the great Larry Cohen and whilst there are some great directorial flourishes and some great dialogue which Cohen also wrote (all of the supporting characters in Cohen's films have the best in quirky left-field comebacks), they don't save this movie.  A wasted premise and a shame. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When comic book artist Josh (Eric Roberts) meets Cheryl (Janine Turner), he immediately falls for her -- unfortunately, she immediately takes a fall as well, collapsing in the street. It turns out Cheryl is diabetic, so Josh calls for an ambulance and promises to meet her at the hospital. When he arrives, however, the hospital has no record of Cheryl. Josh looks for help, even going to a police lieutenant (James Earl Jones), but nobody believes his story, so he must find the ambulance himself.
Director
Larry Cohen
Producer
Moctesuma Esparza, Robert Katz
Screenwriter
Larry Cohen
Production Co
Epic Productions, Esparza / Katz Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 4, 2017
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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