Sheila Scott-Wilkinson Movies
- 1994
In this drama, a woman attempts to recovering following a bout of schizophrenia. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
The sole survivor of a psycho-led mass suicide awakens from a 13-year coma and begins having visions of the cult leader who was also killed in the fiery death scene. She resists his efforts to have her join him in the hereafter, and soon members from her therapy group start dropping like flies. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, (more)
- 1987
In this comedy, a journalist and her husband, an editor, present their very different thoughts on her pregnancy in their respective columns and become a big hit with their fans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tim Matheson, Margaret Colin, (more)
- 1986
In the conclusion of a three-part story, a scorned Diane (Shelley Long) disrupts the press conference of Sam's current amour, local politician Janet Eldridge (Kate Mulgrew). Outraged, Sam tosses Diane out of Cheers, telling her never to come back -- but his problems are only beginning. Elsewhere, Norm (George Wendt) wonders if he will be able to resist the charms of his predatory sister-in-law. This was the final episode of Cheers' fourth season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1982
The opening episode of Quincy, M.E.'s eighth season finds medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman in the middle of another sociological dilemma. 14-year-old Ethan Kellough (DeVoreaux White, former member of a vicious street gang called the "Ravnes", is the prime suspect in the drive-by shooting of a child. The powers-that-be demanding Ethan's arrest have also targeted a halfway house for troubled children, run by inner-city activist Rick Dorado (Gregory Sierra), where Ethan is undergoing a rehab program. It is up to Quincy to determine Ethan's guilt or innocence--and, hopefully, to save Dorado's program from being closed down. Anita Gillette, who had appeared in an earlier Quincy episode as the hero's late wife Helen, joins the series' regular cast in the role of psychiatrist Emily Hanover. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1976
In this drama, Britain's first all-black film, the son of Caribbean émigrés does all he can to adopt the ways of the whites, but encounters racism nonetheless. Not only does he have difficulty with the Anglo-English, his renunciation of his heritage causes problems in his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Herbert Norville, Oscar James, (more)
- 1973
National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's National Theatre. A scattershot satire of the red tape and inconsistencies of England's National Health program, the film is set in the men's ward of an old, crumbling hospital. Moments of lunatic farce dovetail into scenes of blood-drenched human tragedy, leading one wag to label this film Carry on Dying. The film's highlight is a lachrymose lampoon of TV medical soap operas. The cast of National Health is comprised of some of the most polished farceurs in the British isles. Nurse Norton is played by Lynn Redgrave (who ironically later starred in the American hospital-based sitcom House Calls), while other key roles are filled by TV comedienne Eleanor Bron, Carry On alumnus Jim Dale and future Who Framed Roger Rabbit? star Bob Hoskins. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
