A Mistake

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A Mistake

2024,

1h 41m,

Drama

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Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth’s life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding field. But can she survive a single mistake?

Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

Oct 9, 2024

A provocative and engrossing psychological character study.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Sep 23, 2024

Though not a knockout, the director’s return affirms her knack for intelligent adult drama, here hinging on issues of medical ethics and bureaucracy.

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David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

Jun 10, 2024

While the movie might be too unwaveringly downbeat in tone for some audiences, A Mistake functions as both an empathetic character study and a thoughtful examination of professional ethics, culpability and forgiveness...

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Terry Staunton

Radio Times

Apr 17, 2025

3/5

Banks projects the human heart of the story.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

Oct 14, 2024

3/5

It’s not that this is a cinematic misadventure, more it never gets out of second-gear, covering similar thematic ground to the brilliant This is Going to Hurt, but without reaching anywhere near the emotional heights – or devastation – that delivered.

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

Sep 24, 2024

Medical drama A Mistake has an emotionally compelling story but is full of glaringly manipulative plot contrivances.

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Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth’s life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding field. But can she survive a single mistake?

Director: Christine Jeffs
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe, Christine Jeffs
Screenwriter: Christine Jeffs
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 41m

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