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John Q
Due to a national health care crisis in the United States, John Quincy Archibald's insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant. With no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint.
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14 July 1970, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1966 in Ontario, Canada
18 April 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA
21 July 1970, Santiago, Chile
15 July 1950, Athens, Greece
12 June 1953, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
January 07, 2004
Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think.
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.
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.
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
April 29, 2009
A hokey and often silly commentary about the medical industry, and corruption within the establishment.
May 17, 2009
Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]
November 06, 2002
A polemic in search of a plot.
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.
March 13, 2002
Manipulative sentimentality, contrived plot and phony climax.
February 24, 2002
It pulls out more stops than that old silent serial The Perils of Pauline. Unfortunately, it's a talkie.
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.
January 01, 2011
Thought-provoking. Too intense for young teens.