Critical Condition

About Critical Condition

Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by claiming insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment.

Critical Condition (1987) is a comedy film directed by Michael Apted. Released in January 1987, it runs 100 minutes.

The film is filed under con artist and hurricane.

Richard Pryor stars as Eddie Lenahan, Rachel Ticotin as Rachel Atwood, Rubén Blades as Louis, and Maria Cardinale as Herself. The screenplay is by Denis Hamill and John Hamill. In the United States it streams on Paramount Plus Essential.

TMDB voters put it at 5.5 out of 10 across 81 votes and it carries a R rating.