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John Q
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John Archibald is a man who suffers greatly because of the lack of help he needs for a son who needs a transplant that may save his life. John is still suffering from his son's illness, finding that his medical insurance will not cover the cost of surgery needed by his child and that alternative government assistance is not available at the time because of the national health care crisis in America. The man decided to take an illegal action to get what he wanted by taking an emergency room in the hospital hostage in order to save his son's life.
John Archibald is a man who suffers greatly because of the lack of help he needs for a son who needs a transplant that may save his life. John is still suffering from his son's illness, finding that his medical insurance will not cover the cost of surgery needed by his child and that alternative government assistance is not available at the time because of the national health care crisis in America. The man decided to take an illegal action to get what he wanted by taking an emergency room in the hospital hostage in order to save his son's life.
Actors:
Carroll Shelby,
Nigel Shawn Williams,
Arianna Huffington,
Mehmet Oz,
Michael Jaye,
Lester Mathews,
Yanna McIntosh
Carroll Shelby
11 January 1923, Leesburg, Texas, USA
Nigel Shawn Williams
Arianna Huffington
15 July 1950, Athens, Greece
Mehmet Oz
11 June 1960, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Michael Jaye
Lester Mathews
Yanna McIntosh
Country:
United States
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December 18, 2006
Social messages, simplistic action, and teary melodrama are manipulatively but unsuccessfully mixed in this picture, which tries to provide a "hard" look at an honest working-class man (Washington) who loses control while trying to save his child's life
May 17, 2009
Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]
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March 13, 2002
Manipulative sentimentality, contrived plot and phony climax.
January 07, 2004
Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think.
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March 04, 2002
A sappy, melodramatic Denzel Washington vehicle that ensnares you in the standard hostage-movie scenario and doesn't let go until the director runs the whole playbook.
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January 01, 2011
Thought-provoking. Too intense for young teens.
January 21, 2003
A coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power as it tackles an issue that touches us all.
April 29, 2009
A hokey and often silly commentary about the medical industry, and corruption within the establishment.
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February 24, 2002
It pulls out more stops than that old silent serial The Perils of Pauline. Unfortunately, it's a talkie.
September 24, 2007
The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it.
November 06, 2002
A polemic in search of a plot.
February 21, 2002
Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon.