What do you get when you mix lesbian nurses with sick little girls in a children's hospital? A twisted drama like this! A blurb at the beginning of this movie warns that it's not recommended for children under thirteen years of age. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it for children of any age, nor for adults who are easily offended! In her "Intimate Portrait" on the Lifetime channel, Calista Flockhart admitted that she is "drawn to darkness." This movie proves it! Besides containing seemingly non-stop violence, and foul language, it panders to various twisted fetishes, including lesbianism, pedophilia and necrophilia, as demonstrated when a child gives the corpse of Calista's character "a kiss of love" on the mouth, in an effort to bring her back to life. Watch the movie to see if it worked; I won't spoil it for you! Calista is known for starring in roles that dabble in darkness and lesbianism. She starred as the murderess of her character's own child in "Bash: Latter-Day Plays." She locked lips with Lucy Liu, Jane Krakowsky and Courtney Thorne-Smith in the award-winning, title role of Ally McBeal. She also said that she got "to kiss Valeria Golino" in "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" and that "She's hot!" In "The Last Shot," her mentally disturbed character grabbed two small dogs, threatening to stab the one and to strangle the other! I'm not even going into fetishes for nurses and medical equipment, or extreme sadomasochism and cat-fighting! Suffice it to say, bones are broken and blood flows! I watched it on DVD in English and Spanish. It's also available in Catalan, which is appropriate, because it was filmed in Barcelona, in the Province of Catalonia, Spain. It also has Spanish and English subtitles. I noticed that I couldn't remove the Spanish subtitles when I played it in English. I recommend playing it in English if you, like me, are mostly interested in watching it because you're a die-hard fan of Calista Flockhart, and want to hear her voice, because she doesn't speak Spanish, and I don't know who uttered her lines for the Spanish version.
(By the way, did you see the documentary which provided more evidence that Christopher Columbus was a Catalonian named "Colom" from in or around Barcelona, than that he was an Italian from Genoa?) If you want to see more of Calista Flockhart than in "Quiz Show" or "The Birdcage," then you're in luck, because she plays the protagonist, and you get to see her throughout this movie. If, however, you want to see more of her than you did in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," you're in for a disappointment, because the only nudity displayed in this movie is that of the antagonist. Again, I won't spoil it for you; watch the movie to figure out who I'm talking about! Although this movie was intended to be a horror film, the audience laughed at it as if it were a comedy when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, 2005. I thought this was odd, considering how horrifying it is, but I admit there were times when I laughed out loud while watching it. If you've ever laughed at someone else's misfortune, and/or at someone who looked strange, you should be able to relate. And Calista's face was, in my humble opinion, created for comedy. She should have been a clown, as she told people as a child that she intended to be when she grew up. She's just too cute! This movie is historically significant to Calista Flockhart's fans, because it's the last movie she appeared in prior to her return to TV in a series ("Brothers & Sisters") after "Ally McBeal" was canceled in 2002. If you're not a fan of hers, or if you're easily offended or squeamish, I wouldn't recommend watching this movie. However, if you are a fan of Calista Flockhart, or you enjoy seeing people, including children, severely injured, then you must see this movie!
(By the way, did you see the documentary which provided more evidence that Christopher Columbus was a Catalonian named "Colom" from in or around Barcelona, than that he was an Italian from Genoa?) If you want to see more of Calista Flockhart than in "Quiz Show" or "The Birdcage," then you're in luck, because she plays the protagonist, and you get to see her throughout this movie. If, however, you want to see more of her than you did in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," you're in for a disappointment, because the only nudity displayed in this movie is that of the antagonist. Again, I won't spoil it for you; watch the movie to figure out who I'm talking about! Although this movie was intended to be a horror film, the audience laughed at it as if it were a comedy when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, 2005. I thought this was odd, considering how horrifying it is, but I admit there were times when I laughed out loud while watching it. If you've ever laughed at someone else's misfortune, and/or at someone who looked strange, you should be able to relate. And Calista's face was, in my humble opinion, created for comedy. She should have been a clown, as she told people as a child that she intended to be when she grew up. She's just too cute! This movie is historically significant to Calista Flockhart's fans, because it's the last movie she appeared in prior to her return to TV in a series ("Brothers & Sisters") after "Ally McBeal" was canceled in 2002. If you're not a fan of hers, or if you're easily offended or squeamish, I wouldn't recommend watching this movie. However, if you are a fan of Calista Flockhart, or you enjoy seeing people, including children, severely injured, then you must see this movie!
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