Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 05/22/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

Stepping into the role made famous on Broadway by Tom Conti, Richard Dreyfuss stars as a profoundly handicapped sculptor in Whose Life is it Anyway? Left a quadraplegic after an auto accident, the embittered Dreyfuss feels utterly useless, as both an artist and a human being. He doesn't want his family's love, or his doctor's care, or his nurse's ministrations. Dreyfuss simply wants to die-but this is impossible, given the legal state of things in the 1970s. Whose Life is It Anyway? may be the only film in which a person's right to self-destruction is regarded as a happy ending. Not as depressing as it sounds, Whose Life Is It Anyway is perversely hilarious at times, with Dreyfuss at his acerbic best. The film was scripted by Reginald Rose and Brian Clark from Clark's stage play.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Richard Dreyfuss - Ken Harrison
John Cassavetes - Dr. Michael Emerson
Christine Lahti - Dr. Clare Scott
Bob Balaban - Catter Hill
Kenneth McMillan - Judge Wyler
Kaki Hunter - Mary Jo
Thomas Carter - Orderly John
Alba Oms - Nurse Rodriguez
Janet Eilber - Pat

Production:
John Badham - Director
Ray Cooney Lawrence P. Bachmann Martin C. Schute - Producer
Arthur B. Rubinstein - Composer
Frank Morriss - Editor
Brian Clark Robert E. Collins Reginald Rose - Screen Writer
Sydney Z. Litwack - Art Director
Marge Champion - Choreography
Marianna Elliott - Costume Designer
Brian Clark - Play Author
Gene Callahan - Production Designer
Brian Clark - Screen Story
Mario Tosi - Cinematographer

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