Sun., May 19, 2013
The Waiting Room
| VUE rating: | 4 |
| A little girl with a climbing fever and a swollen tongue, looking very freaked out, like she's trying to hold a hot coal in her mouth without getting burned, while her father, for her sake, tries not to succumb to nervous despair; a beardy young hippie who was scheduled to have his testicular tumour removed before finding his surgery cancelled at the last minute due to his lack of medical insurance; a middle-aged labourer with a litany of debts and cocktail of debilitating ailments, a guy who just keeps on working until his body gives up and he winds up here, wondering what to do; an obese, drug- and alcohol-embattled wreck of a man with little to live for, vanishing allies and no place to go: an awful lot of good-natured patients file through the emergency room of Oakland, California's Highland Hospital and appear before Peter Nicks' camera (presumably it was rather difficult to get the more asinine, unruly or belligerent patients to sign waivers), and I promise that you will not be able to meet any one of them and wish them ill. Read full review → | |
Directed by: Peter Nicks
