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The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Ambulance Girl
2005 Directed by Kathy Bates
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La chica de la ambulancia, Швидка допомога
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12 Sep 2005
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My roommate's cat sat in my bed and watched the whole thing with me ❤️
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Kathy Bates is an Ambulance WOMAN, thank you very much.
I’ve seen plenty of movies about troubled relationships, but for whatever reason, seeing Kathy Bates’ personal and professional relationship with her husband fall apart in Ambulance Girl got to me. Imagine being happy with someone for 33 years and bam, suddenly you’re telling them you hate them to their face. That’s scary.
Ambulance Girl’s tone is all over the place; you’ve got the aforementioned marriage drama and Kathy Bates singing gospel to a terminally ill AIDS patient on one end, and Kathy Bates falling into a pool and Kathy Bates dropping her heavy EMT bag on the foot of an already-injured old woman on the other end. Someone call 911, I think I have whiplash.
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I’m finally watching something off of my watchlist! I love Kathy Bates.
While the film frequently uses some unfortunate video transitions, it’s actually pretty “good” for a Lifetime movie, though not exactly a good Lifetime movie. It has the hook of a Hallmark movie, but it’s too horny and thematic for that channel. Of the two, Lifetime makes more sense, but it still feels like it belongs elsewhere.
This is a fabulous Kathy Bates performance. As a director, she clearly knows herself! Some moments genuinely touched me and quite a few made me LOL.
But again, this is supposed to be Lifetime... Kathy Bates has too much of an understanding of humans’ neuroses and complex relationships with one another. (And…
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Kathy Bates saying “I try very hard not to vomit” was extremely relatable!
Kathy is also very horny for firefighters and I’m glad this film let her explore that passion. 🔥💦👀
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Throughout his entire adult life my father was always involved with the local fire department wherever we lived -- usually as a firefighter except for some small periods where life did not allow that commitment. So part of this really resonated with me -- the alarms going off, the camaraderie of the crews, the stress it has on the family, etc. And I LOVE Kathy Bates but this movie is very dry and outside of Bates none of the characters have any real backstory or depth. And her husband was a major asshole.
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I'm always down to watch any movie, starring Kathy Bates but this one was only good for a one-time watch.
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This is a low budget made for TV movie. But it's portrayed how I feel at my job (EMT) more than any other movie I've seen. Just like bike messengers (my last job), EMT is a job that always gets portrayed by a cool guy in sunglasses who's always doing the craziest shit and there's explosions and gunshots and catch phrases and you're supposed to envy this guy doing the coolest job you've ever heard of.
That's all bullshit, of course.
Kathy Bates plays someone who feels lost in life, working an unfulfilling job, and decides to go in a completely different career direction on a whim. It's difficult. She doesn't land on her feet, exactly. She makes lots of…
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saw the last 7 minutes of this on moms cable. kathy Bates conclusionary summary was helpful and it ends with a very poignant point about fear being an illusion.
altogether a short and strange experience
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a really sweet film about a woman finding a new spark in her life after getting stuck in a depression rut. it also goes into detail about having to balance the stresses of having a relationship and working. Kathy Bates did a great job in this role, as well as directing this thing! i can tell that this is really heartfelt and this meant a lot to the people making it. it is both emotional and funny but there is one part that was quite strange. the main character is a food critic, as well an as EMT, and to demonstrate the juggling she has to do for this, there is a montage of Kathy Bates saving people with a voice over of her talking about fried chicken. but all in all, this is a really good lifetime movie, all things considered.
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