Synopsis
Demonstrates how self-confidence and right attitudes are necessary to good health.
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Details
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Attitude1949
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Social guidance
- Health and hygiene
- Teenagers
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Attitudes and Health · Christine Hennig · 2003-09-03
Marv is all bummed out because he didn't make the first team in basketball. He comes home to find out his older sister has taken sick after being passed over for a promotion at work. The doctor emerges from her bedroom and gives Marv and his mother a stern lecture about bad attitudes and how they make people sick, a problem that he believes affects over half of his patients! He makes some reasonable points about how excessive worry can cause health problems, but he's so self-righteous and overgeneralizing about it that you start to wonder if he overlooks serious maladies in his patients by…
★★★★ · Interesting Medical breakthrough! · Spuzz · 2003-07-20
Marvin didn't make the first team in his high school basketball team. Why? H eas worrying too much about not making the team, which of course showed and therefore cost him the chance. This I understand, what makes this film so over the top is the doctor's astonishing claim that over half the cases he sees would have helped if they just have a better attitude!!! Have cancer? You need a better attitude! Got Pneumonia? Too bad you didnt have a positive attitude! The message IS there, just the delivery isn't.
★★★ · A Fair Production · ERD · 2006-10-01
There are some good points brought out in this film, despite it being a bit too wordy. The actor who portrays the worried teenager does a good job, but the actress who does his mother is amateurish.
