Defining Hope
- Documentary
Overview
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can ""fix"" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, there is always ""hope."" Defining Hope tells the story of patients dealing with life-threatening illness as they move between ICUs, operating rooms, hospice care and home. Diane is a nurse caring for end-stage cancer patients when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer herself. 23-year-old Alena undergoes a risky brain surgery that destroys her short-term memory. 95-year-old Berthold lives with his elderly wife who struggles to honor his wish of dying peacefully at home. Defining Hope follows these patients and others- and the nurses that guide them along the way- as they face death, embrace hope, and ultimately redefine what makes life worth living.
Keywords
- hospital
- nurse
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 3, 2017
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Carolyn Jones Productions
- Cast
- JoAnn Nayer-Grutza,Raoul Marrero,Barbara Stephenson,Deborah LaFond,Alena Sydnor,Nina Marrero,Rudolph Bilotti Sr.,Charlotte Cohen,Carole Bailey,Diane Ryanand 3 more
- Director
- Carolyn Jones
- Cinematography
- Jaka Vinšek
- Music
- Marc Ribot
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt6337930