Article 99

1992

Action / Comedy / Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 47% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 3724 3.7K

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Plot summary

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.

Director

Top cast

Forest Whitaker as Dr. Sid Handleman
Keith David as Luther Jermoe
Kiefer Sutherland as Dr. Peter Morgan
Ray Liotta as Dr. Richard Sturgess
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804.94 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 3
1.53 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TED-26 5 / 10

Personal opinion of the story.

A good effort to support the cause of the veterans, which is much needed, but -- it trashes the DVA medical system. They have a daily battle of their own ... professionals vs. administrators. However, the system cannot exist without both. The movie overloads the poorest of possibilities, it exploits the "worst case (impossible) case scenrio. The DVA deserves better. The character portrayed by Keefer Southerland does himself well , and Southerland carries it off well. A good cast, a good story, a poor representation of the truth ... close, but not the truth.
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Reviewed by view_and_review 7 / 10

Fighting for the Veterans to Live

Though many veterans leave the battlefields of war, they sometimes enter another battlefield: that of rehabilitation. So many are physically and psychologically scarred that the medical care they will need after leaving active duty is endless. "Article 99" is about the veterans, the woefully inadequate care they get, the bureaucracy ocean they have to swim through, and the tireless doctors that just want to help.

Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta) was the lead doctor of a team of doctors that knew all the tricks to help patients who weren't cleared to be helped. He and his sidekicks, Dr. Handleman (Forest Whitaker) and Dr. Bobrick (John McGinley), were experts at doing end arounds to get patients the critical care they needed and deserved.

Dr. Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland) was new to the V.A. hospital. Would he jump right in and also circumvent the rules to help his patients or would he obediently follow the dictates of the director, Dr. Henry Dreyfoos (John Mahoney), which meant shoving sick veterans out the door because of budget cuts and lost paperwork?

This movie was excellent. It was somewhat hampered by the now-that-we've-had-sex-let's-get-to-know-one-another relationship between Dr. Sturgess and Dr. Diana Walton (Kathy Baker). I think that cheapened the movie which was dealing with a very noble and oft-ignored topic.

Not since "Born on the Fourth of July" had I seen such extensive cinematic coverage of the treatment of ill and injured veterans. "Article 99" took a rather comedic approach to the issue, but not so comedic it minimized the matter. It's a commendable movie that sheds light on the plight of so many veterans and the handcuffed medical workers that want to aid them.

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