Broken Vessels is a 1998 medical drama film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon. The film debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and marked Ziehl's directorial debut. It stars Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, and James Hong. The film follows a rookie paramedic and his hardened drug-addicted partner as they take calls and cruise L.A. in their ambulance.
While the fil...
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Broken Vessels is a 1998 medical drama film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon. The film debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and marked Ziehl's directorial debut. It stars Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, and James Hong. The film follows a rookie paramedic and his hardened drug-addicted partner as they take calls and cruise L.A. in their ambulance.
While the film did not do so well at the box office, it was generally well received by critics and was nominated for several awards when it was shown at film festivals in 1998. Although it shares the same name as the book, it has nothing to do with the Andre Dubus essay collection of the same name.
The film tells the story of a young man from Pennsylvania (Jason London) named Tom who travels to Los Angeles to start working for an ambulance company. There, he is paired with an utterly self-assured veteran (Todd Field) named Jimmy who has apparently gone...
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