Sick To Death: 4-Movie Set

4 Movies on Two Double-Sided Discs!

Anatomy Of an Illness
MPAA Rated [PG]
1984
Approx: 100 minutes
Edward Asner stars as the Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins. Norman is stricken with a degenerative spinal illness and refuses to accept the prognosis that he must spend the rest of his life as a feeble hermit. In an effort to battle his illness, Norman Cousins is faced with fatal obstacles that he must endure.

Stigma
MPAA Rated [R]
1973
Approx: 93 minutes
Philip M. Thomas stars as Dr. Calvin Crosse, an ex-convict, black doctor just out of medical school. When Dr. Cross returns home to his small, predominantly white New England town to set up a medical practice, things go drastically wrong. Long ago, the sheriff (Peter H. Clue) of the town infected Dr. Crosse's wife with syphilis. The disease spread to their unborn daughter, and now an adult, and very contagious, the daughter (Josie Johnson) has been having group sex with the town's young people in order to pay the old man back for his crimes. The doctor has to treat her victims and track down the disease's source.

Mesmerized
MPAA Rated [PG]
1984
Approx: 90 minutes
This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880's and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18-year-old girl, played by femme fatale (Jodie Foster) who marries a cruel, much-older man (John Lithgow). Lithgow constantly abuses her and keepers her under his thumb until she snaps and using hypnotism kills him. Later, she is tried for her crimes in a court of law.

Virus
MPAA Rated [PG]
1980
Approx: 108 minutes
A military engineered virus is accidentally released and starts destroying humanity on a grand scale. The only people who can save humanity are a group of scientists in Antarctica. The President of the United States warns them by radio communications not to accept anyone into their area that has been contaminated. Although the last men and women on earth believe they are prepared, their defenses are tested as a Russian submarine seeks refuge on the safety of their island. If that wasn't enough tragedy for the remaining survivors of the infectious holocaust, a second disaster presents itself, the launch of a nuclear weapon.