The House of God (1979)
- Starring:
- Tim Matheson, Charles Haid, (more)
- Director(s):
- Donald Wrye
Synopsis of The House of God
In this abysmal, tasteless farce, the pitfalls of patient and staff life in a big city hospital are supposed to be the brunt of the jokes, but there are no living jokes in this film. In the first several scenes, the obnoxious know-it-all Fats (Charles Haid) introduces new interns to the hospital with an aggressive monologue that exhorts them to stay away from the patients and basically do exactly the opposite of what the Hippocratic Oath enjoins. Everything spirals downhill from there. Later on, an intern quits in disgust but returns to the hospital when one of his friends needs his medical expertise. As an example of the hilarious behavior of the protagonists, a female doctor does an autopsy while she herself is bare to the waist. Certainly her scalpel might have been put to better use by excising that scene and then transplanting another movie onto this one. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Complete Cast of The House of God
- Tim Matheson - Dr. Roy Basch
- Michael Sacks - Dr. Wayne Potts
- Bess Armstrong - Dr. Worthington
- James Cromwell - Officer Quick
- Howard E. Rollins, Jr. - Chuck
- Charles Haid - Fats
- Lisa Pelikan - Jo Miller
- George Coe - Dr. Leggo
- Ossie Davis - Dr. Sanders
- Sandra Bernhard
- Director(s):
- Donald Wrye
- Writer(s):
- Donald Wrye
- Producer(s):
- Charles H. Joffe, Harold Schneider
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