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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 16, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall & Anne Heche | |
Performer: | James Woods, Ray Liotta, Kimberly Elise, Daniel E. Smith, Shawn Hatosy, Eddie Griffin, Kevin Connolly & Troy Winbush | |
Directed by | Nick Cassavetes | |
Screenwriting by | James Kearns | |
Composition by | Aaron Zigman | |
Produced by | Mark Burg & Oren Koules | |
Director of Photography: | Rogier Stoffers |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
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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Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Rating: 2/4 --
Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Rating: C --
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
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...Mr. Washington manages to be fittingly morose without losing his powerhouse quality...
New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
A polemic in search of a plot.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
...JOHN Q. is unafraid to speak the plain truth...
Los Angeles Times
Manipulative sentimentality, contrived plot and phony climax.
Observer
Product Description:
John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey (Daniel E. Smith) and his waitress wife (Kimberly Elise). Mikey collapses at a Little League game and is rushed to a hospital. The situation is bleak. Only a heart transplant will save Mikey's life. John's HMO refuses to cover the expensive surgery. With the hospital and his insurance provider unwilling to help and his wife pleading with John to act, he takes matters into his own hands, holding the hospital's renowned heart surgeon (James Woods) and several others hostage in an emergency care wing until the surgery will be performed.
Nick Cassavetes directed this attack on the American health care system. Like his previous feature, SHE'S SO LOVELY, Cassavetes proves adept at mining the political ramifications out of human drama. The film criticizes hospitals and health care providers for working in collusion against the working class. This moving drama is propelled by the intense lead performance by Washington as one man against an unjust system.
Nick Cassavetes directed this attack on the American health care system. Like his previous feature, SHE'S SO LOVELY, Cassavetes proves adept at mining the political ramifications out of human drama. The film criticizes hospitals and health care providers for working in collusion against the working class. This moving drama is propelled by the intense lead performance by Washington as one man against an unjust system.
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- Sales Rank: 113,817
- UPC: 794043546822
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