Directed by:
Tom VaughanScreenplay:
Robert Nelson JacobsCinematography:
Andrew DunnComposer:
Andrea GuerraCast:
Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Diego Velazquez, Jared Harris, Patrick Bauchau, Dee Wallace, Courtney B. Vance, Derek Webster, Lily Mariye (more)VOD (2)
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From his working class roots, John Crowley has finally begun to taste success in corporate America. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen and their three children, John is on the fast track. But just as his career is taking off, Crowley walks away from it all when his two youngest children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with a fatal disease. With Aileen by his side, harnessing all of his skill and determination, Crowley teams up with a brilliant, but unappreciated and unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill. Together they form a bio-tech company focused on developing a life-saving drug. One driven to prove himself and his theories, the other by a chance to save his children, this unlikely alliance eventually develops into mutual respect as they battle the medical and business establishments in a fight against the system and time. But, at the last minute, when it appears that a solution has been found, the relationship between the two men faces a final test - the outcome of which will affect the fate of John's children. (official distributor synopsis)
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Extraordinary Measures can thank two things above all else - that it can rely on the grateful phrase "Based on a true story", and most importantly, that Harrison Ford wanted to be in it, and as it happens, he's perfect again. But I guess I'll never stop wondering who cast Brendan Fraser in this film and on what basis. I mean, he's been completely clueless and lost as an actor since The Mummy, for God's sake... Both in more serious films and in "comedies"... And here he almost never leaves the screen. Bleh. I imagine that another, better actor, along with Ford, could have made a duo that could have turned Extraordinary Measures into an Awakenings-style film. Easily. But not like this.__P.S. The child heroine was also excellent, and her first meeting with Dr. Stonehill is the best moment of the whole film.
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