Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/22/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Stepping into the role made famous on Broadway by
Tom Conti,
Richard Dreyfuss stars as a profoundly handicapped sculptor in
Whose Life is it Anyway? Left a quadraplegic after an auto accident, the embittered
Dreyfuss feels utterly useless, as both an artist and a human being. He doesn't want his family's love, or his doctor's care, or his nurse's ministrations.
Dreyfuss simply wants to die-but this is impossible, given the legal state of things in the 1970s.
Whose Life is It Anyway? may be the only film in which a person's right to self-destruction is regarded as a happy ending. Not as depressing as it sounds,
Whose Life Is It Anyway is perversely hilarious at times, with
Dreyfuss at his acerbic best. The film was scripted by
Reginald Rose and
Brian Clark from
Clark's stage play.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
