Critical Care (1997)

Description

When an idealistic young doctor enters into the case of wealthy, terminally ill patient, he's ensnared in a web of ethical doubt and erotic treachery for which no med school degree could prepare him. From legendary director Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon, Network), this powerhouse drama stars James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick and features Oscar nominee Helen Mirren, and Oscar winner Ann Bancroft and Albert Brooks. Dr. Werner Ernest (Spader) is an overworked, underappreciated intern who only wants what's best for his elderly, comotose patient - until he falls obsessively in love with the ailing man's beautiful daughter, Felicia (Sedgwick). But the seductive Felicia has ten million reasons to let her father "die with dignity" - while her deeply religious sister has her own motives for keeping him alive. Caught between passion and duty, Werner desends into a moral mine field where the physician's god-like powers of life and death depend not on knowing right from wrong...but on having the courage to choose.