Checking Out
Nine out of ten doctors say Ray is perfectly healthy. But what do they know?
Directed by David Leland
Produced by Handmade Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
A slapstick comedy that mines dark existential anxiety—the death of a best friend and fear of mortality—for laughs through physical comedy and hypochondriac obsession.
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
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