Film Medical Theme: Cardiopathies

All That Jazz

Language : English

Year : 1979

Medical Theme : Heart Disease

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer

Storline : Director/Choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing drug using dancer

Autumn In New York

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Heart disease / Neuroblastoma

Actors : Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPagila

Storline : The film Autumn In New York is a very complex love story, where Will Keane, a restaurant owner falls in love with Charlotte Fielding, a young girl half his age. Will is unmarried and loves living a carefree life and throughout his whole life he has avoided any strong commitments in his past relationships. But when he meets Charlotte he is impressed by her unconventional ways and falls in love with her, but this time before he could tell her his unwillingness to commit, he comes to know about her heart disease and how she will die very soon. On the other hand Charlotte comes to know about Will’s past affairs and also about the one with his mother and becomes terribly depressed. But in the end, before Charlotte dies Will understands that his relationship with Charlotte is different from his past encounters and he also makes Charlotte believe the same and helps her die happily.

Dinner at Eight

Language : English

Year : 1933

Medical Theme : Heart Disease

Actors : Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

Storline : Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health and he is worried because someone is trying to buy-up the stock in his shipping business. As the time for dinner approaches Oliver's heart problem gets worse.

On Golden Pond

Language : English

Year : 1981

Medical Theme : Heart Trouble

Actors : Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda

Storline : Norman Thayer, a retired professor and his wife Ethel are on Golden Pond. Chelsea, their daughter feels that she too must be there for Norman's birthday. She comes to meet her father after a long time and how their relationship shapes is rest of the story.

Something the Lord Made

Language : English

Year : 2004

Medical Theme : Heart Surgery

Actors : Alan Rick man, Mos Def,Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef

Storline : A white and a black man come together to invent a new technique for performing heart surgery. The white man is a heart surgeon but the black man is a poor carpenter. It is a moving story about two men trying to save Blue Babies suffering from congenital heart defects.