CRITICAL CONDITION

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: A Comedy Of Epidemic Proportions.; ; The symptoms: acute tickling of the funny bone and sever belly laughs. The diagnosis? Richard Pryor in Critical Condition. Playing a criminal who fakes insanity to avoid prison, Pryor ends up in a hospital psychiatric ward. That's when the craziness starts as he escapes during a blackout and disguises himself as a doctor. Somehow Pryor brings order to chaos even while performing unorthodox physical examinations, delivering a baby and using a helicopter for air conditioning!
• Cast: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Bob Saget, Joseph Ragno, Jon Polito, Garrett Morris, Brian Tarantina, Jude Ciccolella, Cigdem Onat, Lucius Houghton, Joe Aufiery, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Randell Haynes, Al White, Marquerita Wallace, Manera Smith, Verna Hampton, Lou Walker, Doris Dworsky, Denis Hamill, John Hamill, Ralf D. Bode, Ann Pollack, Miriam Cruz, Teresa Yenque, Wesley Snipes, Mike Silver, Kevin Campbell, Mel Shrawder, Larry Graves, Jack Hallett, Michael Medeiros, Keith Roberts, Karen Jones-Meadows, Feiga Martinez, Elizabeth Arlen, Peg Banesse, Joe Rivers, Clifford Jackson, Lara Marshall, Leroy Staples, Johnny Howie, Steve Boles, John Woodson, Bennie Moore, Jeffrey Pillars, Joseph Coscia, Del Roy, Laura Bastianelli, Lee Lawrence, Geoff Gordon, Ron Amari, Raymond Rosario, Michael Apted
• Director: Michael Apted
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie