A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.
- Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 11 wins & 38 nominations total
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- TriviaBased on Neal Nicol's and Harry Wylie's novel, "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia." It was published by Vision in 2006.
- GoofsDr. Kevorkian's original death machine (using IV drugs) was called the Thanatron, not Mercitron. The Mercitron was the name of his carbon monoxide based death machine.
- Quotes
Lynn Mills: Have you no religion? Have you no God?
Jack Kevorkian: Oh, I do, lady, I have a religion, his name is Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach. And at least my God isn't an invented one.
- SoundtracksEarly in the Morning
Written by Dallas Bartley, Leo Hickman & Louis Jordan
Performed by Harry Nilsson
Courtesy of RCA Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
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Throughout the history of Mankind, there are a plethora of unique individuals who stand as giants as they have changed the world. Columbus, Gailieo, Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, have all fought a prevailing notion of a given era. To this famous list one can add the dedicated Dr. Jack Kavorkian. Born May 26, 1928 is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist and painter. His life is the center of this movie called " You don't know Jack. " Al Pacino, who bears an astonish resemblance, plays Dr. Jack Kevorkian and does an incredible job. Other notable thespians like Brenda Vaccaro, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman and Danny Huston all appear like towering pillars in a magnificent temple. Together their performance allows the audience to view the good doctor in his Herculeion task of establishing a man's right to die. Despite being ostracized, ridiculed, vilified, hounded and even imprisoned, Kavorkian continued and in the minds of millions of rational people, his struggle established the precedent for humans, not a puritanical government, to chose the time to die. Pacino's performance is exceptional and this movie will become a Classic for future audiences. Recommended to anyone willing to listen. ****
- thinker1691
- Apr 24, 2010
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- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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