The Carey Treatment is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffrey Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton.
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in an hospital. He soon meets Georgia Hightower (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Evelyn Randall, daughter of the hospital's Chief Doctor, becomes pregnant and is brought to the emergency departm...
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The Carey Treatment is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffrey Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton.
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in an hospital. He soon meets Georgia Hightower (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Evelyn Randall, daughter of the hospital's Chief Doctor, becomes pregnant and is brought to the emergency department after an illegal abortion. She dies there, and Dr. David Tao (James Hong), a brilliant surgeon and friend of Carey, is arrested and accused of being responsible for the illegal abortion. Carey does not believe his friend to be guilty and starts investigating on his own, despite strong opposition by the police and the doctors around the hospital's chief.
The Carey Treatment received mostly mediocre to negative reviews. Roger Ebert wrote, "The problem is in the script. There are long, sterile patches of dialog during which nothing at all is...
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