A Mistake

2024

Drama / Thriller

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 19 reviews
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1473 1.5K

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Director

Christine Jeffs Photo
Christine Jeffs

Top cast

Elizabeth Banks Photo
Elizabeth Banks as Elizabeth Taylor
Mickey Sumner Photo
Mickey Sumner as Robin
Chelsie Preston Crayford Photo
Chelsie Preston Crayford as Registrar
Matthew Sunderland Photo
Matthew Sunderland as Owen
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928.86 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 6
1.86 GB
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English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MichaelM-6239 7 / 10

I just watched A Mistake. I probably shouldn't have.

Banks' Dr. Taylor could've been me, or half the surgeons I've worked with. That little knot of pride trusting you've got the skill, the judgment, the *right* to be in control, until you decide to let someone else take the step you've taken a thousand times. You tell yourself it's mentorship. You tell yourself they're ready. Then you blink, and the patient's gone.It wasn't the first scenes that hit me. It was the silence afterward. The way people won't meet your eyes in the hallway. The administrative smiles that hide sharpened teeth. The moment you realize the institution will feed you to the wolves if it keeps them out of the headlines. She carried herself exactly like we do when we're trying not to drown shoulders square, voice even, replaying the moment over and over until you think maybe you can reverse time if you find the right frame. I know that replay. I live with my own.The film left me with this sick pit in my stomach. Not because it's exaggerated, but because it isn't. It's real. One mistake, one lapse, and suddenly your years of service, your reputation, your sense of self, they're all on the table.
Reviewed by Boristhemoggy 7 / 10

A very thought provoking film

Gifted surgeon Elizabeth Taylor (Elizabeth Banks) finds her life thrown into disarray following a mistake by one of her team during surgery appears to lead to a patient's death. The bureaucratic Head of Surgery Andrew McGrath (Simon McBurney) seems to hold her responsible somehow and tries to control her and what she can say publicly about the incident. He also suspends her and treats her almost as 'the enemy' during the coming weeks.I suspect most hospitals are run by people like Andrew McGrath and I suspect many health practitioners suffer the heavy hand of that type of bureaucracy. Despite seeming to want transparency and accountability, they seem to only want it on their own terms. It reminded me of course of the many investigations into health care in the UK where hospitals spend many years fighting in court to hide their malpractice. Malpractice that often -when the reports are finally made public- show that the hospital either knew about and tried to hide it, or engineered that malpractice through overly bureaucratic processes that did not fit with quality health care. The parents of the patient who died simply wanted to know the truth about what happened, and yet that was not easily available.Although this is just a story I suspect it is highlighting the fact that this goes on, every day, in healthcare settings. Politics should have no place in healthcare but sadly it seems most hospitals are run by people like Andrew McGrath.It's a very thought provoking film and Banks does a brilliant job of bringing Dr Elizabeth Taylor to life. I give it a solid 7.
Reviewed by danieljfarthing 5 / 10

Dry, downbeat, depressing, tv-standard NZ medical drama

In writer / director Christine Jeffs' tv-standard New Zealand medical drama "A Mistake" senior surgeon Elizabeth Banks leads a team in an operation in which an error is made, that MAY have contributed to the patient's death hours later. The patient's parents formally complain, Banks & team are scapegoated by the hospital's administration (led by Simon McBurney (excellent)), and their lives begin to miserably crumble. Being so dry, downbeat, & depressing it was perhaps a mistake for star name Banks to get involved. Its noble message is that healthcare workers are over-worked & under-appreciated, but there must be more effective ways of conveying that.
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