You Don't Know Jack

(2010)

★ 7 IMDb · 451 votes

Genres: Drama, телевизионный фильм, History

Year: 2010

Runtime: 134 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Барри Левинсон

Cast: Аль Пачино, Дэнни Хьюстон, Сьюзан Сарандон, Джон Гудман, Бренда Ваккаро, Эрик Ланж, Джеймс Урбаниак, Рутаня Олда, Delaney Williams, Danielle McKee

Plot

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian (1928 - 2011 ) in the 1990s, when he defies Michigan law assisting the suicide of terminally-ill persons. Support comes from his sister, a lab tech, the Hemlock Society president, and a lawyer. The child of survivors of the Armenian genocide interviews applicants: his sister video tapes them. He assembles a device allowing a person to initiate a three-chemical intravenous drip. The local D.A., the governor, and the Legislature respond. In court scenes, Kevorkian is sometimes antic. He's single-minded about giving dying individuals the right to determine how their lives will end. He wants the Supreme Court to rule. He picks a fight he can't win: is it hubris or heroism?