Plot Summary: Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death, assisted in more than 130 suicides. After willingly sending a videotape of himself euthanizing a terminally ill man to "60 Minutes," he was convicted in 1999 of second-degree murder and spent eight years in prison before getting paroled in 2007. Loosely based on Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie's book "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia," the HBO film follows Kevorkian's (
Al Pacino) rise as he builds his infamous Mercy Machine and sets out to perform assisted suicides while waging an epic legal battles defending a patient's right to die.
Release Date: TBA 2010
Director: Barry Levinson
Screenwriter: Adam Mazer
Starring: Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Danny Huston, Brenda Vaccaro, James Urbaniak, Delaney Williams, Rutanya Alda, Eric Lange, Allen Lewis Rickman, George Aloi, Deirdre O'Connell
