Larry Birkhead files a complaint with the California Medical Board to seek a halt to the biopic “Trust Me, I'm a Doctor,” which adapts Sandeep Kapoor’s memoir.Birkhead says the film exploits the private life of his daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, and warns it will cause emotional harm; he notes that Kapoor was implicated in Anna Nicole Smith’s death and was acquitted in 2010.The film casts
Kal Penn as
Sandeep Kapoor and
Abbie Cornish as
Anna Nicole Smith;
Kal Penn defends Cornish’s performance while Birkhead pursues legal and public objections and cites previous dramatizations such as “
Law & Order” and a
Lifetime movie.