Even if it were all staged, Exit: The Right to Die would be a profound and moving experience.
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03/01/07
Exit: The Right to Die (2006)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: This powerful documentary focuses on a Swiss organization that helps the terminally ill prepare themselves for assisted suicide, which is legal in that country. Rather than being bleak or... [More]
Director: Fernand Melgar
Reviews for Exit: The Right to Die
1 - 9 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
If the film’s lack of emotionalism deprives it of dramatic energy, it also forces viewers to react to a highly charged issue intellectually and on the merits, rather than out of manipulated passion.
10/30/06
Would that all death be so peaceful.
10/25/06
It's not the kind of documentary that leaves you feeling like you've only heard one side of the debate, that certain unsettling truths have been tactically avoided.
10/25/06
This earnest documentary about assisted suicide plays like a stodgy promotional film for the Swiss organization Exit A.D.M.D., which helps terminally ill patients end their own lives.
10/24/06
Top Critic[Exit] makes a strong implicit case for a cause supported by a growing number of Americans.
10/24/06
Top CriticNo one here gets out alive, as Jim Morrison put it before the End, though in Switzerland one at least has the chance of booking a smoother passage from insufferable pain to whatever comes next.
10/24/06
For our information, Fernand Melgar's Exit attempts to dispel misconceptions surrounding euthanasia.
10/13/06
A talky but vivid documentary exhibiting the work ofan organization in Switzerland that helps people die,i.e. assisted suicide.
10/09/06
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