| Stephen King Presents - Kingdom Hospital (2004)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Ed Begley, Jr. |
Dr. Jesse James
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| Jack Coleman |
Peter Rickman
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| Bruce Davison |
Dr. Stegman
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| Meagan Fay |
Brenda Abelson
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| Lena Georgas |
Carrie Von Trier
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| Diane Ladd |
Sally Druse
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| Andrew McCarthy |
Dr. Hook
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| Del Pentecost |
Bobby Druse
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| William Wise |
Dr. Louis Traff
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| Janet Wright |
Liz Hinton
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Horror; Mystery; TV Series |
| Director |
Craig Baxley |
| Studio |
Columbia / TriStar |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR (Not Rated) |
| Running Time |
608 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.2 |
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| Plot |
Where malevolence meets malpractice.
Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King's adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier's cult miniseries The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that's been built on the site of a 19th-century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of 10-year-old child worker Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman), and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom. Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror, and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 1.78:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396041936 |
| Release Date |
10/12/2004 |
| Packaging |
Custom Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
4 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Box set Dolby |
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