The Detour

Duration: 13

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Phoenix Films Caroline Mouris

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Focuses on the plight of dying patients in hospitals. Shows how modern medicine is keeping an elderly woman alive while she struggles to die in peace with dignity.

Complete Record: Dramatization from the view point of an elderly terminal patient in a hospital as she reacts to doctors, nurses, the chaplain, an orderly, and the food. She remembers a past lover shortly before her death. Humorous and pathetic at the same time.