You Don't Know Jack (2010)

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USA

Television Film

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Adam Mazer

Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld

Composer: Marcelo Zarvos

Cast: Al Pacino, Danny Huston, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Brenda Vaccaro, Cotter Smith

A retired doctor, driven by the memory of his mother’s painful death, determines to ease the suffering of others by offering an assisted suicide service, but opposition from the religious right ensures that he spends as much time inside court rooms as he does helping patients, in this well-crafted, convincingly-acted, and thoroughly compelling look at the work of real-life doctor Jack Kervorkian and his associates. Iain.Stott