Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

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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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Theatrical Feature Running Time:

118 mins

Complete Cast:

Director(s):

John Badham

Writer(s):

Reginald Rose, Brian Clark, Robert E. Collins

Producer(s):

Ray Cooney, Lawrence P. Bachmann, Martin C. Schute

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

R(Nudity, Adult Language, Not For Children, Adult Situations)

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