Britannia Hospital [1982] | ![Britannia Hospital [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AKYV4DJGL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Lindsay Anderson
Actors: Malcolm Mcdowell, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt, Fulton Mackay
Studio: Cinema Club
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1976
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138300166
ASIN: B0001P045A
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Release Date: July 19, 2004
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 Unappreciated at the time, an absolute masterpiece August 20, 2005
Dr. George L. Sik (Epsom, Surrey)
45 out of 47 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe in this age of successful dark comedy, from 'The Office' and 'Extras' to 'Brasseye' and 'The League of Gentlemen', how shocking this film was to reviewers at the time, simply by being pitch-black in its humour. Even recently, I heard some berk of a film critic say that it wasn't a patch on its predecessors, 'If...' and 'O Lucky Man'. Nonsense! It is easily the equal of 'If...' and rather superior to 'O Lucky Man', which, in my view, is way too long and rather uneven. Director Lindsay Anderson was understandably upset by Britannia Hospital's critical mauling, but its targets, from pompous royalists to selfish union leaders, from power-crazed professors to lazy, rule-bound porters are expertly brought down. Cynical coke-fuelled journalists, hospital administrators who would kill to look good (literally, at one point), policemen who can't control a situation without resorting to violence, vacuous wise-cracking DJs even a bemused Queen Mother who hasn't a clue what's going on...they're all there and rightly so. It was definitely a film ahead of its time. Interestingly, the production team apparently didn't research much what real hospital life was like before making it, but everyone I have met who has ever worked in a hospital finds it instantly and painfully recognisable!
 80's revisited March 10, 2005
5 out of 28 found this review helpful
this will recall the power of Unions against the self interest which thatcher ercouraged.
Working in the hospital heirachy is also demonstrated
The irony of research without ethical checks [pain in the butt that they are] being funded without question and power hungry males realising their fantasies is played well but overlong.
Excellent if it had been an hour shorter,
 films like that shouldn't exist January 12, 2004
2 out of 69 found this review helpful
my god i'm french and i saw this movie on the comedy channel and i still remember this nonsense jokeless movie with no humour at all
i wonder what kind of person like that 'cause i quite like english humour but this time it didn't pass
The third film in the Mick Travis Trilogy May 6, 2002
Alex (London, UK)
34 out of 37 found this review helpful
If you liked If... and O Lucky Man, try hard to get hold of this film. Made in 1982, it is the long awaited follow up to O Lucky Man from 1973. Not only is it directed by Lindsay Anderson, but it stars Malcolm McDowell and the rest of the cast from If... (including Biles) and the soundtrack is written by Alan Price of O Lucky Man fame. The film is about pre-Thatcher England. Set amidst class war and union strikes, the film digs at everything from the NHS to the Royal Family. A flop at the time due to it coming out during the Falklands War and the rise of patriotism, the film looks much better now and is very popular in the US.
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