
“Her doctor wasn't playing God. He thought he was God.”
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Release Date: 9/29/1993
Runtime: 107 minutes
Languages: English, French
Director: Harold Becker
Budget: $20.0M
Revenue: $46.4M
Companies: Nelvana, Castle Rock Entertainment, New Line Cinema
Countries: Canada, United States of America
CinemaSerf
Despite the fairly formidable cast here, this really does smack of an over-scored and weakly written late night television movie. It all centres around the happily wed "Andy" (Bill Pullman) and "Tracy" (Nicole Kidman) who are missing just one thing in their lives - a child. When she is suddenly rushed to hospital and diagnosed with a necrotic ovary by the long term friend of "Andy" and slightly arrogant surgeon "Jed" (Alex Baldwin) he carries out a surgery that changes their lives for ever. Turns out this operation wasn't necessary and the surgeon is accused at the subsequent tribunal of having a "God Syndrome"! As the film now progresses we discover a web of lies, deceit, cheating, sex and murder - all of which suggest that "Jed" is not the upstanding physician that his medical peers think he is, and that perhaps he is not working alone to fleece the insurers of some $20 millions due after the botched procedure. The story itself it quite a complex and characterful one, with plenty of twists, turns and perilously placed hypodermic needles, but I found neither Baldwin nor Pullman really exuded much personality and the equally unremarkable Kidman was left to do just a little bit too much of the heavy lifting by herself. At times, it is quite tautly directed but it's got loads and loads of unnecessary dialogue and it felt a bit stodgy at times, too. Maybe it's just time that hasn't been kind to this mystery, but by the conclusion I didn't really care about any of them.

Alec Baldwin
Dr. Jed Hill

Nicole Kidman
Tracy Kennsinger

Bill Pullman
Andy Sarafian

Bebe Neuwirth
Det. Dana Harris

George C. Scott
Dr. Martin Kessler

Anne Bancroft
Mrs. Kennsinger

Peter Gallagher
Atty. Dennis Riley

Josef Sommer
Atty. Lester Adams

Tobin Bell
Earl Leemus
William Duff-Griffin
Dr. George Sullivan

Debrah Farentino
Nurse Tanya

Gwyneth Paltrow
Paula Bell
1983