The Good Doctor

2011

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 7647 7.6K

Plot summary

Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

Director

Lance Daly Photo
Lance Daly

Top cast

Evan Peters Photo
Evan Peters as Donny
Taraji P. Henson Photo
Taraji P. Henson as Nurse Theresa
Sarah Lancaster Photo
Sarah Lancaster as Christine
J.K. Simmons Photo
J.K. Simmons as Detective Krauss
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835.13 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7
1.67 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bagatur-16247 7 / 10

Another Orlando Bloom

The good doctor is a story about what happens if a doctor, at his own discretion and arbitrariness, begins to interfere in the process of treating a patient. An 18-year-old patient with pyelonephritis, an infectious disease of the kidneys, comes to the novice therapist Martin Blake. And what happens is that our doctor begins to feel completely unprofessional feelings for the patient. In order to keep her in the hospital at least a little, he changes drugs and starts a very risky game with an unpredictable result. The famous Orlando Bloom appears here in a rather rare acting role - a maniac and a sociopath. In the supporting roles, it is beautifully set off by Michael Peña and J. K. Simmons. Together with the competent direction of the Irishman Lance Daley, the result was a wonderful psycho-thriller, very, very competently exploiting the fears of the ordinary man in front of modern medicine. Designed for a purely target audience - people who love smart independent films, where you need to speculate a lot yourself and draw your own conclusions based on what you watched. To all that has been said, it remains only to add that the rating of the film is undeservedly underestimated.
Reviewed by drewnes 5 / 10

"You know the secret to being a good doctor, don't you? You act like one."

The trailer to this movie made me think it was going to be something else entirely. I admit I was intrigued for the most part but also pretty anxious/uncomfortable due to his poor decisions throughout the whole movie. With an ending like that, I wouldn't say this is the worst movie, but not one that will be remembered either.
Reviewed by polsixe 6 / 10

Interesting take on Doctors

Not the usual doctors as heroes film, this one shows some dark sides. A lonely Brit resident is in his first year at an L A hospital. He's not really sure why he became a doctor other than to gain respect. His boss is a distracted lightweight and a senior doctor called in to consult is a fatuous windbag. A patient gets sick and the senior doctors are baffled, the patient gets worse but because all the normal tests are done it is all shrugged off. Then the relative ease doctors can get involved in the drug trade is depicted. The protagonist seems to get over it all and moves along with his career. Could've used some more tension and humour, although the dinner scene with the family from suburban hell was good for a laff.
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