The Knick

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century. Every day they must deal with lack of funding, personal conflicts, egotism, racial tensions, personal vices, drug addiction, affairs, closed minds, dated nigh-medieval medical techniques and them and their experimental new techniques being misunderstood by most, in order to keep the hospital going and give the ill the help they need. The pressure is enormous and leaves its mark on the souls of most of them.

Year

2014

Movie time

58 min

Directed by

N/A

Cast

André Holland, Clive Owen, Jeremy Bobb

8.5/10

IMDB

01E03 - The Busy Flea

An old friend of Thackery's, Abbie Alford, arrives at the hospital seeking his help. She has lost most of her nose as the result of syphilis, which she acquired from her now absent husband. Thackery agrees to perform a skin graft. Drs. Gallinger and Chickering try to learn the surgical process Edwards offered to show them but are unable to do so. Dr. Edwards is looking to open a treatment center in his basement office during night hours to treat black patients. He has to face the realities of what he can accomplish with limited resources however. Herman Barrow faces an ultimatum from his loan shark who seems to be quite ready to exact payment from him, one way or another. Ambulance driver Tom Cleary is surprised to see someone he knows enter a rundown tenement building. Other cases of typhoid fever begin to appear.

Date: 22 Aug 2014
IMDB id: tt3237470
IMDB rating: N/A
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