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The Waiting Room
Directed by
Peter Nicks
Not Rated
2012
81m
Documentary
,
Drama
7.1
100%
76%
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Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.
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Cast of The Waiting Room
Sean Bennett
Dameon
Peter Nicks
Director / Producer
Linda Davis
Producer
The Waiting Room Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
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.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
A dramatic and inspiring look at a piece of the U.S. health care problem.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Grim but enlightening, perhaps required viewing for those who care to debate themselves blue about a crisis they'll never fully understand.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Elizabeth Horkley
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.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The level of frankness and vulnerability of those featured suggests just how compassionate a filmmaker Nicks (who acted as his own cinematographer) must be.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Eloquently portrays the faults and limitations of the American health care system, even as it punctures some of the most toxic stereotypes surrounding it.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie observes the general misery of needing serious medical treatment and the particular awfulness of needing medical treatment you can't pay for.
IndieWire
Serena Donadoni
The Waiting Room is beautifully filmed and masterfully edited, but feels too careful and polished to have the emotional impact of activist filmmaking.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is human drama at its most intense and universal. This is the rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
"The Waiting Room" doesn't have [the] answers, but it does tap into the heart and soul of what's so critically at stake.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nicks reports on what American public medicine looks like today. You decide if it's working or not.
NPR
Linda Holmes
The Waiting Room is often dryly funny; it's very tense at times; it's emotional, and it's not didactic, which it easily could have been. It is frustrating, to be sure, but that's sort of the point.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A rock-solid verite docu.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Waiting Room never seems to be shoving its moral perspective down viewers' throats.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
A revealing portrait of the often tough transactions between patients and hospital staff at the urgency level.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Among its many other distinctions, The Waiting Room stands as a powerful refutation of Romney's conception of emergency rooms as a reasonable, or even vaguely acceptable, option for the uninsured.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Urgent and upsetting ...
Slant Magazine
Elise Nakhnikian
Documents emotionally charged interactions between patients and hospital staff without any signs that the subjects are being made to feel self-conscious or that they're behavior is being affected.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
By removing any editorial screen, it confronts you head-on with human suffering that a more humane and equitable system might help alleviate.
Village Voice
Jonathan Kiefer
What makes The Waiting Room worth visiting is how well it does without the usual narcotizing doc tactics.
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