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| Description: If ever there was a star-studded movie it would be the film written, produced and directed by American based Nigerian filmmaker, Tony Abulu, titled: Doctor Bello. In fact, it has been described as one of the most anticipated movies of 2012.The mix of American and Nigerian movie stars that took part in the film shot on location in the United States of America and Nigeria, also gives the choice audience of Nollywood stakeholders and lovers of the Nigerian film industry reason to jeer. The story is about a Cancer specialist, Dr. Michael Durant (Isaiah Washington) who is troubled emotionally, due to the traumatic loss of his 10-year-old daughter from the said ailment. He immerses himself in his work in the hospital, away from his wife (Vivica J. Fox) who blames him for their child’s death and eventually leaves him. Dr. Durant forms a bond with a sick seven-year-old boy Sam (Evan Brinkman), the son of a rich Jewish-American couple, who are major contributors to the hospital’s cancer research fund and are desperate for good news about Sam. Unfortunately, Sam’s health deteriorates drastically and soon, he slips into a coma, with only a few days to live. Dr. Durant becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A Nigerian nurse (Ebbe Bassey) convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Tayo Bello (Jimmy Jean-Louis), an uncertified Nigerian doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker. Dr. Bello, an introvert with a controversial past, secretly visits the child at night and administers a strange African potion replete with incantations and by the next morning, miraculously, the child begins to recover, the cancer speeding into remission.The hospital’s medical board immediately orders an investigation and soon the secret is revealed and Dr. Durant is suspended. Dr. Bello is arrested and charged with medical malpractice. Durant soon falls into depression after his wife leaves him.Meanwhile, Bello has fallen critically ill in jail and can only be saved by the ingestion of the same potion that can only be found in the mysterious Garden of Life, nestled on the peak of Idanre hills in Ondo State of Nigeria. It is the story of Durant’s quest to Nigeria for a cure for cancer where he finds much more than he bargained for. Doctor Bello is an interesting story no doubt and all the actors give a good account of themselves leaving no doubt that they are true professionals |
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