ER : Benton Backwards (2000)
Directed by Sarah Pia Anderson / Christopher Chulack / Rod Holcomb / Whitney Ransick / Donna Deitch / Mimi Leder / Eric Laneuville / Dean Parisot / Lesli Linka Glatter / Tom Moore / Paris Barclay / Davis Guggenheim / Richard Thorpe
Genres - Drama, Romance, Family & Personal Relationships |
Sub-Genres - Medical Drama, Prime-Time Drama [TV] |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Alan Young guest stars as Archie Mellonston, a nursing-home patient who raises a ruckus in the ER when he flashes back to a traumatic incident during the Korean War. Other developments: blacklisted throughout Chicago by the vengeful Romano (Paul McCrane), the unemployed Benton (Eriq La Salle) is saddled with additional problems courtesy of his pugnacious nephew Jesse (Andrew McFarlane); Greene (Anthony Edwards) treats a beauty contestant who was injured in a freak "cosmetic" accident; and Chen (Ming-Na) takes care of a terminal patient whose mother is in a state of denial. All this, plus a shoot-out in the ER -- and a mugging in which Kovac (Goran Visnjic) ends up killing his attacker.