The thorny issue of veterans receiving substandard treatment in tight-budgeted, bureaucracy-plagued Veterans Administration hospitals receives little real insight in ARTICLE 99, a routine effort that borrows its freeswinging comic style from M*A*S*H but timidly pulls most of its punches.
Dr. Peter Morgan (Keifer Sutherland) is an up-and-coming heart surgeon who signs on at a VA hospital for his internship. There he encounters a nightmarish morass of red tape in trying to treat his patients and "creeping cutbacks" in budgets that have led to the title's fictitious catch-22 rule,
promising treatment to all veterans but immediately withdrawing it in the absence of ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
99 mins