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2011 Sundance Predictions: Lance Daly’s The Good Doctor

Kisses director Lance Daly made a splash with Kisses two years back, that quickly secured him this shot in L.A. project which includes plenty of Sundance alumni in Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Peña and a small cameo from J.K. Simmons. The Good Doctor, a drama thriller would aspire to a Premieres category world preem to be followed by a possible showing in Berlin.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 3, 2010

#12. The Good Doctor – Lance Daly

Kisses director Lance Daly made a splash with Kisses two years back, that quickly secured him this shot in L.A. project which includes plenty of Sundance alumni in Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Peña and a small cameo from J.K. Simmons. The Good Doctor, a drama thriller would aspire to a Premieres category world preem to be followed by a possible showing in Berlin.

Written by John Enbom, Dr. Martin Ploeck (Orlando Bloom), who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane (Riley Keough), suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

* Producers: Orlando Bloom, Dan Etheridge (The Nines) and Jonathan King
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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).