Article 9. 9 Set in a dilapidated Veterans Administration hospital, Article 9. It’s about dedicated physicians not performing life- saving acts of valor: Their hands are tied by the crisis in veterans’ health care — the calamitous lack of funding, the red tape, the increasingly prevalent policy of refusing to cover conditions (such as heart problems) that aren’t directly related to military service. To function as doctors, the movie’s heroes have to become outlaws in their own hospital. Chief among the rebel healers is Leonard Sturgess (Ray Liotta), a crusading surgeon who’s an old hand at stealing supplies and forging documents.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, co-star Bill Pullman admitted that he didn’t watch Star Wars before co-starring in Spaceballs, meaning he didn’t. 33 Movies to Watch This Oscar Season. Say goodbye to the August doldrums. The next few months are full of buzzy biopics and indie hits. Heat Vision focuses on fanboy entertainment news including movies, TV shows and comic books with geek-friendly subjects. It's like Comic-Con 365 days a year.

Kiefer Sutherland is the new kid on the block, a cautious yuppie intern who forms a sentimental attachment to an aging patient (Eli Wallach). With its crew of surgical hotshots issuing directives in hipster slang (”All quiet on the Western front — let’s zap him!”), Article 9. M*A*S*H. Yet the movie, which has a live- wire surface energy and an urgent performance by Liotta, is a shallow, tabloid expose. Seven Sisters Movie Watch Online. The hospital here is a cartoon of bureaucratic inefficiency: It’s so badly run that the patients seem lucky if they can get an aspirin.

I don’t mean to trivialize the crisis in veterans’ health care — it’s an outrage that has dragged on for years — but Article 9. In the ridiculous, shoot- the- works finale, the villainous hospital chief (John Mahoney) is exposed and reprimanded by a high- ranking Washington official.

Didn’t it occur to the filmmakers that it’s the government’s policy — and not some hog- tied administrator — that’s responsible for the situation they so glibly assail?

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Bill Pullman Didn't Bother Watching Star Wars Before Appearing in Spaceballs. This weekend is the 3. Spaceballs, Mel Brooks (somewhat) beloved Star Wars spoof. Brooks might’ve set out to imitate and satirize George Lucas’ iconic work, but that doesn’t mean everyone else did their research. In an interview with. The Hollywood Reporter, co- star Bill Pullman admitted that he didn’t watch Star Wars before co- starring in Spaceballs, meaning he didn’t really know who his character, Lone Starr, was actually parodying. And it wasn’t like it was a new movie, either— all three films in the original trilogy came out years before Spaceballs.

A New Hope was a decade old by that point.“I missed it the first time around,” Pullman said. I just needed Mel to tell me what was going on. I didn’t need to see Star Wars to know what the whole thing was.”Star Wars may have started out as a surprise smash in 1. Han Solo, Lone Starr’s inspiration. Nowadays, it’s kind of funny to imagine Pullman trying to parody something he knew practically nothing about.

Then again, it’s Spaceballs. Maybe it actually helped.[The Hollywood Reporter].