WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: The ultimate drama in the human comedy.; ; Gifted sculptor Ken Harrison is now a hospitalized quadriplegic. And no matter how much he makes light of his condition, another kind of light inside him grows dim. Ken wants the doctors to let him die.; ; In this searing version of the hit play, Richard Dreyfuss plays Ken, jousting with physicians, teasing nurses and striving to persuade hospital authorities and the justice system that he can't be denied one of the few choices he has left. John Badham directs a compelling cast, including John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti and Bob Balaban. ; ; Whose Life Is It Anyway? It's Ken's. Seen another way, it's society's. And as these two sides clash, you'll laugh, weep and just might look at your life in a whole new way. ;
• Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan, Kaki Hunter, Thomas Carter, Alba Oms, Janet Eilber, Kathryn Grody, George Wyner, Mel Stewart, Ward Costello, Alston Ahern, Betty Cole, Lyman Ward, Juli Andelman, Abigail Hepner, Alan Stock, Jeffrey Combs, Steven Bourne, John Garber, Katie Guymon, Francine Henderson, J.J. Johnston, Michael Steve Jones, Lissa Layng, Dorothy Meyer, Karla Pitti, Beth Renner, Tony Simotes, Fred Slyter, Robert S. Telford, Roberta Jean Williams, Larry D. Callaghan, Thomas Collette, Sebastian De Francesco, Duane F. Johnson, William E. Townsend, Eric Morton, Deborah Morton, George T. Clinton, Joel R. Schanker, Charles Michael Gross, Teodoro Haywood Anderson, Michael V. Rogers, Glenn J. Cohen, John Badham, Brian Clark, Reginald Rose
• Director: John Badham
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie