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70% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 79% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Ken Harrison (Richard Dreyfuss) is a well-known and respected sculptor, until a terrible car accident leaves him a paraplegic. His once ...
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Jan 22, 1982 · Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Directed by John Badham. With Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban. Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures.
- (3.6K)
- Comedy, Drama
- John Badham
- 1982-01-22
Dr. Clare Scott (Christine Lahti) is concerned about Ken and Dr. Michael Emerson (John Cassavetes) is the hard-nosed supervisor who insists that he knows what's best. Ken drives away his supportive dancer girlfriend Pat. He hires lawyer Carter Hill (Bob Balaban) to sue for his right to die.
Language. English. Budget. $11.5 million [1] Box office. $6.1 million [1] Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a 1981 American drama film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss. It was adapted by Brian Clark and Reginald Rose from Clark's 1972 television movie and 1978 stage play, all under the same title.
Screenplay. Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Review by Derek Armstrong. John Badham's Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a tense, terse examination of the right to die, predating Jack Kevorkian by a good decade. The film strikes viewers from the start with its smart decisions, foregoing a drawn-out look at Harrison's idyllic pre-accident life, and instead setting the entire narrative in the ...
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