It feels as if the story has been given a last-minute melodrama transplant.

"Committee" overstocks the moral predicaments sometimes, but it does raise many salient points.

In Austin Stark's serious-as-a-heart-attack melodrama, a hospital's transplant committee debates the ethics of who will get a human heart and live. Issues of class, race, mental health and money predominate.

The God Committee marks a smart, thought-provoking entry into the canon of bioethical filmmaking.