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| Title | Threshold (1981) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | General Cardiac surgery | | Country | Canada | | Length | 106 | | Genre | Drama | | Rating | 4 | | Director | Richard Pearce
| | Cast | Donald Sutherland John Marley Jeff Goldblum Sharon Acker Mare Winningham
| | Notes | Surprisingly well done and informative. It's about the first artificial heart transplant and the problems getting the go-ahead in the face of administrative caution. But the film is not series of over-the-top confrontations. Instead we're shown the slow, understated grind of pioneering work. We are clearly shown how the mechanical heart works and also the pressure on the surgeon to help a patient who will die without a transplant. Today some will find unpleasant the use of calves for experimentation and the surgery is realistic enough to make the faint hearted turn away. Good material for a discussion of the ethics involved.
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