Extraordinary Measures

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Extraordinary Measures

PG

Released Jan 22, 2010

1h 46m

Drama

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John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife (Keri Russell) and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.

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Despite a timely topic and a pair of heavyweight leads, Extraordinary Measures never feels like much more than a made-for-TV tearjerker.

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: B+

Feb 18, 2012

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Harrison Ford still retains enough of his old movie star magic to ramp up the electricity a bit when he's onscreen, but this only makes you want to see him do something that makes better use of his gifts. Brendan Fraser just seems to grow bigger over the

Mar 2, 2010

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Ian Freer

Empire Magazine

Soapy and unemotional, this makes a hash of an interesting true story.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 26, 2010

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Harrison Ford is enjoyable in just about everything, but somehow he plays an unlikeable character in this film.

Rated: 2/10

Nov 29, 2020

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

A disappointingly ordinary film.

Rated: 1.5/4.0

Sep 7, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES is an extraordinary story about some extraordinary people. An intelligent film that shoots an IV of humanity straight into your heart.

Nov 6, 2019

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bama b

This was a great heart warming movie! I highly recommend!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/24

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georgan g

Interesting but too schmaltzy. Harrison Ford yelled more than acted.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

its a great movie, brenden frazer gives amazing movies. also keri russell a great actress. i hope they both have breaks for series and movies

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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steve d

The story is far better than the script. The two leads are well matched but the dialog seemed stilted.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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nilufer e

Well the cast was promising and the title made it sound like an action movie so I watched it without having a clue but it was pretty boring to be honest. Even the acting was off.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Frances H

Critics are coldhearted bastards! As someone who has lived with a son with a rare genetic disease for which there is no treatment, this film is a ray of hope and really under plays the melodrama of what it is like for a family to live with trying to save their child's, or in this case, children's lives. You do whatever you can to make their lives better and longer. Nothing is more heartening than to see the story of people who made it happen. Critics still love the worst melodrama I have ever seen, the totally fictitious Gone with the Wind with a selfish, totally reprehensible "heroine" who is anything but, while this tense true drama about a family's struggle against all odds to try to save their children, the critics hate? Shows what critics know of the real drama that people live with every day of their lives! Critics don't know a damn thing about real life!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/19

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Tom Vaughan

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Brendan Fraser

John Crowley

Harrison Ford

Dr. Robert Stonehill

Keri Russell

Aileen Crowley

Meredith Droeger

Megan Crowley

Diego Velázquez

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Synopsis

John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife (Keri Russell) and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.

Director: Tom Vaughan
Producer: Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Carla Santos Shamberg
Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs, Geeta Anand
Distributor: CBS Films
Production Co: Double Feature Films, CBS Films
Rating: PG (Suggestive Content|Language|Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 22, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.9M
Runtime: 1h 46m

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