Broken Vessels

Broken Vessels is a 1998 medical drama film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon. The film debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and marked Ziehls directorial debut. It stars Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, and James Hong. The film follows a rookie paramedic and his hardened drugaddicted partner as they take calls and cruise L.A. in their ambulance. Although it shares the same name as the book, it has nothing to do with the Andre Dubus essay collection of the same name.

Made on a nonunion shoestring budget of 600,000, it was nominated for several awards when it was shown at film festivals in 1998., Though it failed to find a legitimate theatrical distributor, eventually, the film was selfreleased in just two theaters over the holiday weekend of July 4, 1999 and brought in 3,722.The film received no small amount of notice from major critics including Roger Ebert of the Chicago SunTimes who gave it three stars out of four, saying What makes the movie special is the way both lead actors find the right quiet notes for their performances. ........

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