National Health, The Format:DVD gun-slinging sheriff out to defend

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Schmidt embarks on a search for answers

and often hilarious - this is an intimate and thoughtful portrait of an older man struggling to reconcile with his past

as the world of standup comedy slowly dies

Special Features include ghostly apparitions caught on camera

National Health, The Format:DVD gun-slinging sheriff out to defendPeter Nichols (Georgy Girl) adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in an overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gold (The Medusa Touch)