You Don't Know Jack
Barry Levinson, 2010
Between the Dying and the Dead
Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, 2011
You Don’t Know Jack is a movie directed by Barry Levinson in 2010 and based on the book Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, first published in 2011. The movie features Al Pacino, Danny Huston, John Goodman, Brenda Vaccaro, Susan Sarandon, Cotter Smith, and others.
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Storyline
A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian astonished the world as he took the end-of-life debate head-on with his ‘Mercitron’ and performed his first assisted suicide. “The movie follows Kevorkian as he builds his infamous Mercitron and starts a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient’s fight to die.
Movie vs Book
Year
2010
Minutes
134
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
You Don't Know Jack
Director: Barry Levinson
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Length: 2h14m
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Year
2011
Pages
242
Book Rate
6.00
S: Goodreads
Book
Between the Dying and the Dead
Subtitle: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia
Author: Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie
Country: USA
First published in: 2011
Length: 242 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“I feel the book is very respected and honored. The Daisy Jones & The Six adaptation is everything I wanted the book to be.”
TAYLOR JENKINS REID (Writer)
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