The Waiting Room
One Hospital, Hundreds of stories
One Hospital, Hundreds of stories
Documentary
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2012
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The Waiting Room is a character-driven documentary film that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The film - using a blend of cinema verité and characters' voice over - offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, executive staff and caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices. It is a film about fighting for survival when the odds are stacked against you.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
81 min
Release date:
26 Sep 2012
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 5 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It's a vivid portrait of the crisis in health care policy, with the caregivers and clinic itself as much on life support as the sick people.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
21 Mar 2013
fresh:
A moving portrait of people doing their jobs under very difficult circumstances - and, in virtually every moment we see, doing them with efficiency, wisdom and compassion.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
21 Mar 2013
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Nicks nets moments that are at turns horrific and touching, redemptive of those seeking treatment and the workers who provide it where no one else will.
– Elizabeth Horkley,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
14 Mar 2013
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The level of frankness and vulnerability of those featured suggests just how compassionate a filmmaker Nicks (who acted as his own cinematographer) must be.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
18 Jan 2013
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Both a depressing indictment of a system that prioritizes health care based on insurance coverage and, at the same time, uplifting, if only because of the extraordinary professionals who keep it going - barely.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
17 Jan 2013