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In Italian with English subtitles. Also known as
Be Sick... It's Free and
The Family Doctor.
Widescreen. Directed by
Luigi Zampa. This comedic social satire mercilessly lampoons Italy's ineffectual health-care system that allows for corruption and mass hypochondria. An ambitious Dr. Tersilli (
Alberto Sordi) bets his fellow doctors that he can amass more patients and benefits than any of them can. Learning the ins-and-outs of the system, his office is soon jammed with patients seeking treatment for a variety of real or imagined maladies as the doctor tries to attain his stated goal of seeing no less than 2,000 patients!
