Flying On One Engine
NEW DOCS
Plastic surgeon and cancer survivor Dr. S. Dicksheet spends six months of every year performing cleft lip surgeries for free in his native India, where he is revered as a god. (At last count, he had completed an astonishing 140,000 surgeries.) The rest of the year, this wine-tippling, lottery-playing, Mother-Teresa-dissing, eight-time Nobel Prize nominee, and self-described chick magnet lives on social security and Chinese take-out in a mouse-infested Brooklyn apartment, where he raises money for his charitable work. Like the good doctor himself, this stunning film pulls no punches as it relates to the sometimes hilarious and always bizarre survival saga of this utterly enthralling “Saint of Smiles.” MP
Director
Joshua Weinstein
Producer
Joshua Weinstein
Release Year
2008
Festival Year
2008
Country
United States
Run Time
50 minutes