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      The Heart Specialist

      R Released Jan 14, 2011 1 hr. 39 min. Romance Comedy List
      Reviews 37% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score After following a former girlfriend to Florida, Ray Howard (Brian J. White) winds up as an intern in a not-so-prestigious teaching hospital. An unapologetic Lothario, Ray tries to work his charms on nurse Donna (Zoe Saldana), but she's already involved with the chief resident, Dr. Sidney Zachary (Wood Harris), who is also Ray's instructor. Sidney, who moonlights as a standup comic, decides that Ray needs to learn about true love, as well as medicine. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Worst film I've seen in a very long time. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member It was so good I own the movie. If you get a chance to see it take your time it's worth it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Like a bad sitcom that even the UPN wouldn't air. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty good movie, didn't expect it to tank my tear ducts but it was worth my time. Very good movie. Kind of like watching the black version of scrubs. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Didn't do anything for me and I doubt it will do anything for most people. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member If Tyler Perry decided to make a bad parody of "Grey's Anatomy" meets "Funny People", then you would have "The Heart Specialist". This is a black "dramedy" that I had never heard of, and there is a good reason for that, it isn't good. Wood Harris stars as a Dr. who moonlights as a comedian, trying to bring laughter into people's lives as medicine. Only problem is, he nor the movie, are funny at all. The only laughs come from a female patient who is a little mental. This wants to be something along the line of a Tyler Perry movie, but fails miserably. The characters are all lame and one dimensional, and the story just isn't that good. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Joe Leydon Variety A ploddingly paced and tonally dissonant mix of broadly played sitcom-style humor and shameless heartstring-yanking. Jan 18, 2011 Full Review Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter Amateurish doctors-in-training comedy/drama too blatantly reveals its television inspirations. Jan 18, 2011 Full Review Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel Dr. Dennis Cooper must have knocked off this script while watching "Scrubs" re-runs in the break room. This is "Scrubs" told totally from a black doctor's point of view. Rated: 1/4 Jan 14, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis After following a former girlfriend to Florida, Ray Howard (Brian J. White) winds up as an intern in a not-so-prestigious teaching hospital. An unapologetic Lothario, Ray tries to work his charms on nurse Donna (Zoe Saldana), but she's already involved with the chief resident, Dr. Sidney Zachary (Wood Harris), who is also Ray's instructor. Sidney, who moonlights as a standup comic, decides that Ray needs to learn about true love, as well as medicine.
      Director
      Dennis Cooper
      Screenwriter
      Dennis Cooper
      Distributor
      Freestyle Releasing
      Production Co
      Elevate the Game Entertainment
      Rating
      R (Language|Sexual Content)
      Genre
      Romance, Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 14, 2011, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 1, 2013
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $1.1M