Young Doctors in Love

R

1982

1 hr. 35 min.

Comedy

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35%

17 Reviews

Tomatometer

34%

1,000+ Ratings

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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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Steve D

Airplane but without any of the jokes landing.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/21/23

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harsh c

A few chuckles but pretty stupid

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Garry Marshall

Director

Michael McKean

Dr. Simon August

Sean Young

Dr. Stephanie Brody

Harry Dean Stanton

Dr. Oliver Ludwig

Patrick Macnee

Jacobs

Héctor Elizondo

Angelo

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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People Magazine

Young Doctors is light, funny, lightning-paced and (unshackled by TV's mores) bawdy.

Jul 15, 2014

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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
Executive Producer: Garry Marshall
Screenwriter: Michael Elias, Rich Eustis
Production Co: ABC Motion Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Dec 7, 2004