Extraordinary Measures2010
Extraordinary Measures (2010)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Dr. Robert Stonehill
as John Crowley
as Aileen Crowley
as Megan Crowley
as John Crowley Jr.
as Patrick Crowley
as Dr. Kent Weber
as CEO Erich Loring
as Pete Sutphen
as Dr. Renzler
as Sal
as Marcus Temple
as Wendy Temple
as Dr. Preston
as Dr. Allegria
as Niles
as Vinh Tran
as Cal Dunning
as Renzler Scientist #1
as Senior Scientist
as Researcher
as Security Officer
as Reception Nurse
as Day Nurse (Jana)
as Julia
as Night Nurse (Marcy)
as Maria
as ICU Nurse
as Dr. Waldman
as Day Nurse (Kate)
as ICU Doctor
as Stonehill's Secretary
as Van Driver
as Nell Madden
as Webber's Assistant
as Armed Guard
as Pediatric Nurse
as Mega Store Cashier
as Renzler Venture Capitalist #1
as Renzler Venture Capitalist #2
as Security Officer #2
as ICU Nurse #2
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Critic Reviews for Extraordinary Measures
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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
Soapy and unemotional, this makes a hash of an interesting true story.
Moderately illuminating in parts, but the clichà (C)s of cinematic suffering tend to overwhelm it.
Harrison Ford is the clichà (C) of a scientist who cares more for equations than humans, and works to atrocious rock music. The child actors are cloying in their cuteness. A serious subject drowned by sentimentality.
Fraser's blandness makes for a deeply uninteresting fit with Ford's supposedly adorable grumpiness. Very ordinary.
Vaughan and scriptwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs have plumped for the â~one man against all oddsâ(TM) plotline, the most reassuringly inoffensive of narrative archetypes.
Audience Reviews for Extraordinary Measures
Its an okay movie. Ford and Fraser are good strong leads with a good supporting cast. The storyline is okay and although based on a true story i dont think its really a best movie maker, should just of stayed for tv movie. its a nice enough heart warming, if not inspiring movie of one dads motivation to cure his kids,but this movie is only 'okay' and is okay enough to watch on a sunday afternoon.
Super Reviewer
Taking a break from trying to amuse the kids with forgettable family films, Brendan Fraser is trying to save the kids with tolerable family drama. The first feature made by CBS Films, Extraordinary Measures is largely bereft of the mawkish excess of recent kids-with-cancer slog Matching Jack. Sick children and Crowley's (Fraser) selfless wife Aileen (Keri Russell) often disappear, leaving us with starstruck Fraser and Harrison Ford arguing, or fighting the power. Jared Harris is suitably terse as a cold-hearted pharmaceutical "suit", yet professionally crabby Ford ensures that those on the front line of medicine aren't whitewashed as altruistic saints. This is terribly tense - or draining, even with Fraser's constant effort to prove he's a serious performer by bugging his eyes in a serious manner. But being unaffected by the prime objective is impossible.
Super Reviewer
Poor acting by Frasier and Ford, no real focus on the disease that the kids suffer from and many pointless scenes that seem to just extend the movie and do nothing else.
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