John Q (Blu-ray) PG-13
Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 7, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Duvall, Denzel Washington & 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: 0/5 --
The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it.
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eFilmCritic.com
It pulls out more stops than that old silent serial The Perils of Pauline. Unfortunately, it's a talkie.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Manipulative sentimentality, contrived plot and phony climax.
Observer
...[Washington] puts in another strong performance...
USA Today
Rating: 2/4 --
Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Thought-provoking. Too intense for young teens.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: C --
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.
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Entertainment Weekly
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.