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Young Doctors in Love

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In a soap-opera spoof the chief pathologist (Harry Dean Stanton) at a big hospital shows newcomers (Michael McKean, Sean Young) how to operate.

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Joe Pollack St. Louis Post-Dispatch The slam-bang school of comedy remains alive and pretty well in Young Doctors in Love, a mixture of good sight gags, pretty good one-liners and an inane plot. Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Bruce McCabe Boston Globe If a similar ingenuity had been invested in the film as a whole, the results might have been better. Apr 27, 2018 Full Review Jennifer Selway Time Out The effect is crass, crowded, and pretty funny, as though the characters from half-a-dozen episodes of General Hospital had strayed onto a big screen and decided to misbehave. Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …this is a wild and wooly comedy that goes for broke rather than woke, but anyone with a pulse should find something to enjoy in the scattershot humour here…. Rated: 3/5 Oct 4, 2023 Full Review Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express With its air of foolishness and total superficiality, neither the medical profession nor anything else is really being lampooned. It's just a bunch of jokes. Rated: 3/5 Sep 21, 2020 Full Review People Magazine Young Doctors is light, funny, lightning-paced and (unshackled by TV's mores) bawdy. Jul 15, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Airplane but without any of the jokes landing. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/21/23 Full Review harsh c A few chuckles but pretty stupid Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review bill t Watched this one a few times in the 80s and thought this was a good time. Time has definitely not been good to this one. Humor is often sophomoric, tasteless, and just not that funny. Some cute bits though. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member It is like a double episode of General Hospital scripted by the writers of Airplane! on bad drugs. Actually, it's not even that good. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Like to turn your brain off and laugh at some goofy stuff? This could fall in that category. I saw it a long time ago and still remember a few very funny things. "You want me to stop swearing? OK. I don't give a fuck about that." Paraphrased of course from Joe Pantaliano as a cross-dressed/in-disguise Italian mobster with latent homosexual tendencies. Head surgeon Dabney Coleman to Michael McKean: I hear you're quite an asshole. I like that. Harry Dean Stanton as pathologist tasting ALL the fluids of the human body. McKean fakes him into drinking piss. Pamela Reed as head nurse: Which assistant nurse would you like, Doctor? Dabney: The one with the tits. Pamela (sighs): OK . . . Cindy. Lots of stars in this film. btw The above is entirely from memory having watched it 20+ years ago. I will re-watch it just to see what I forgot (and correct the above) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Garry Marshall may have given us some great TV comedy his foye into film wasn't always as successful. Young Doctors in Love is one of those cases. Easily R rated sitcom material the jokes are hit & mostly miss even sorta scrapping that Zucker level that will make you groan instead of cracking a smile. It's one of those films that you throw as much against the wall & see what sticks. It's very lucky to have a good cast that does more w/ the material then it rightfully deserves. Personally I got the most enjoyment out of Harry Dean Stanton, Hector Elizondo & Dabney Coleman. They are really the comic gold in this film that tries so hard to win you over. It's a strange mix of dead pan & zany comedy w/ a mix of romance that doesn't always work. Could have stood to go through another rewrite but the sugar boobies were appreciated especially from Coleman's Xmas gift from his staff...I wish that someone thought as much of me to give me such a holiday gift Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In a soap-opera spoof the chief pathologist (Harry Dean Stanton) at a big hospital shows newcomers (Michael McKean, Sean Young) how to operate.
Director
Garry Marshall
Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenwriter
Michael Elias, Rich Eustis
Production Co
ABC Motion Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 7, 2004
Runtime
1h 35m