Derek Jacobi and Russell Tovey also appear in the large ensemble cast of Richard Eyre's screen adaptation of the recent Alan Bennett play about the NHS, which premiered in Toronto.
After all that pot-banging during lockdown, it seems positively treasonous to suggest that there can be rampant inefficiencies, ineptitude and even evil intent within individual hospitals and health trusts, which is the thrust of Bennett’s final act with its shock reveal.
Shot in real hospital wards and corridors in Wakefield and London, the film version keeps the bones of Bennett’s plot intact, with just a few prosthetic attachments and tweaks. A fictional hospital somewhere up north, the Bethlehem, nicknamed the Beth, is a local hospital for local people. Unfortunately, that’s not what the current government, the same old monsters we have still in power in the U.K.
As Colin pays a duty visit to see Joe, an angry former miner who homophobically disdains his openly gay son’s lifestyle in London, various members of staff and management get wind of Colin’s power and try to persuade him to save the Beth. Preening CEO Salter is less persuasive than the boots-on-the-ground medical staff whom Colin can see are doing their best to help people.
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