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• Actors: Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Pat Morita, Dorothy McGuire, Ray Walston
• Directors: Michael Tuchner
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000B9NCR8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,668 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A feisty former baseball coach confined to a nursing home fights courageously against the injustices committed upon the elderly.

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5.0 out of 5 stars More information........, June 14, 2007

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W. S. Smith "out-of-print-video" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amos (1985 TV-movie) (VHS Tape)

More information for those thinking of purchasing a previously viewed copy of this out-of-print item.....

Amos Made for TV by Kirk Douglas' own Bryna Productions and was first telecast on September 29, 1985. It stars Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy McGuire, Ray Walston and Pat Morita. In a plot reminiscent of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest;" a group of senior citizens led by Douglas rebel against a cold nurse and her staff.
Douglas plays the title character, a fiercely independent senior-citizen baseball coach, forced to live in a retirement home after an auto accident. During his stay, Amos conducts a battle of wills with overbearing head nurse Daisy Dawes (Montgomery). Besides losing his freedom and having to put up with her rules Amos suspects, that Dawes has been systematically murdering her more troublesome charges.

The film is an exploration of the real issues faced by our nation's senior citizens, Amos is a shattering drama of the horror of helplessness. Kirk Douglas said after shooting the movie; "The abuses in the script shocked me...I assumed they had been exaggerated for dramatic purposes. I was devastated when I found out that the reverse is true..." The story which Douglas brings to life so vividly is a celebration of sacrifice, courage, and the triumph of humanity. - Liner Notes

Kirk Douglas is great, and he injects some humor and life into a film that could have been rather drab and melancholy.