Summer 2000 Film Schedule
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| A Civil Action | |
Date: |
July 13 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | David F. Goldsmith, M.S.P.H., Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| Medical Theme: | Environmental Impact, Toxic Waste, Leukemia |
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| This film is based on a true story about a woman, Anne Anderson (Kathleen Quinlan), whose son Jimmy died of leukemia in 1981. Anne was the first parent to suspect tainted water of causing illness in her Pine Street neighborhood of East Woburn, Massachusetts. Two wells supplying the drinking water for the town were found to be contaminated with industrial solvents. Huge toxic waste sites were discovered that year, leading to the suspicion that the pollution was caused by local industries. Eight families eventually filed suit against the industries, alleging that the improper handling and disposal of industrial solvents led to leukemia and other serious health problems suffered by them and their children. Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) is a brilliant personal injury lawyer with the heart of a world-class poker player. He loves making money. But acting as the plaintiffs' attorney, he will learn that nothing costs more than trying to prove what he believes to be the truth. |
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| Starring: | John Travolta, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Duvall |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 58 minutes |
| Rating: | PG-13 (For some strong language) |
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| Whose Life Is it Anyway? | |
Date: |
July 20 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | Marion Danis, M.D., Head, Section on Ethics and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Quality of Life, Depression, Paralysis |
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| Ken Harrison (Richard Dreyfuss) is a young sculptor who survives an auto accident only to be permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Dr. Emerson (John Cassavetes) saves Harrison’s life - but to what purpose? This is the film's central question as the patient, knowing himself to be completely helpless for the rest of his days, makes a poignant plea to be removed from his life-sustaining equipment. |
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| Starring: | Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Janet Eilber, Christine Lahti |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours |
| Rating: | R |
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| Good Will Hunting | |
Date: |
August 3 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | Judith Rapoport, M.D., Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Child Prodigy |
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| Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is only twenty years old but already stands out in his rough, working-class neighborhood in South Boston. Like his friends, he does menial jobs between stints at the local bar - and run-ins with the law. He's never been to college, except to scrub floors as a janitor at MIT. Yet he can summon obscure historical references from a photographic memory and almost instantly solve math problems that frustrate Nobel Prize-winning professors. The one thing this remarkably bright, impossibly angry young man can't do - after his latest bar fight - is talk his way out of a pending jail sentence. His only hope is Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), a college professor-turned-therapist with an admiration for Will's emotional struggles and a keen understanding of what it's like to fight your way through life. |
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| Starring: | Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Stellan Skarsgard, Minnie Driver |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 6 minutes |
| Rating: | R (For strong language, including some sex-related dialog) |
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| Yellow Jack | |
Date: |
August 10 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | Michael Rhode, Chief Archivist, Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. |
| Medical Themes: | Walter Reed, Yellow Fever, Infectious Disease, Viruses, Medical Research, Vaccines |
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This film is based on the true story of U.S. Army doctor Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) and his quest to discover the cause of yellow fever. After the Spanish-American War, the United States occupied countries that suffered from many tropical diseases. In 1899 Walter Reed, who was stationed in Washington, D.C., was sent to Cuba to be part of a team investigating the cause of this disease. Cuban physician Carlos Finlay (Charles Coburn) hypothesized that mosquitoes might be responsible for transmitting the disease to humans. Walter Reed and his team of volunteers, some of whom died while conducting their research there, proved that Finlay’s hypothesis was correct. Ultimately, the research team's work made the construction of the Panama Canal possible a few years later.
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| Starring: | Janet Beecher, Virginia Bruce, Charles Coburn, Alan Curtis, Andy Devine, Buddy Ebsen, Jonathan Hale, William Henry, Robert Montgomery |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1938 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 23 minutes |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
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| Girl, Interrupted | |
Date: |
August 17 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | Danny Wedding, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Medical Theme: | Borderline Personality Disorder, Mental Health |
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| Based on a true story and the best-selling book of the same name, this film is set in the changing world of the late 1960s. Depressed and directionless after high school, Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) finds herself at Claymore - a renowned psychiatric institution for troubled women. Susanna must choose between the world of people who belong on the inside - like the seductive and dangerous Lisa (Angelina Jolie) - or the often difficult world of reality on the outside. Susanna's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist (Vanessa Redgrave) she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she spends nearly a year on the ward. |
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| Starring: | Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 7 minutes |
| Rating: | R (For strong language and content relating to drugs, sexuality, and suicide) |
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| Not As a Stranger | |
Date: |
August 24 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Guest Speaker: | Peter Dans, M.D., Associate Professor, Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Medicine, medical careers, Medical Students |
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| Stanley Kramer's directorial film debut is based on Morton Thompson's novel of the same name. This is a story about Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland), a nurse who marries an aspiring physician and works to put her husband, Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum), through medical school. This film is a timeless depiction of the relational, financial, and emotional challenges faced by those who embrace the medical profession. |
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| Starring: | Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Lon Chaney, Jr., Harry Morgan, Lee Marvin |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 15 minutes |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
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