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John Q. [DVD] [2002]

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  • Actors: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Gabriela Oltean, Kimberly Elise, Ron Annabelle
  • Directors: Nick Cassavetes
  • Writers: James Kearns
  • Producers: Avram 'Butch' Kaplan, Dale De La Torre, Hillary Sherman, Howard Burkons, James Kearns
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY2P
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,115 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great movie!, 16 Aug 2003
By K. Wyatt "ssintrepid" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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John Q is definitely a wonderful movie, full of a lot heart. Denzel Washington does an outstanding job as John Q. In my opinion, an even better job than in Training Day. He definitely should’ve gotten an Oscar for this one.

John Q is essentially about a man whose son encounters a life threatening medical situation. His job has changed medical plans and his hours have been cut, all more or less without him being aware of it. When told his son needs a heart transplant, he finds out that his insurance won't really be there help out. As a good father, he does every thing he can, within the system to get this surgery for his son, but to no avail. He's left with no options, so he chooses to basically kidnap the ER and his son's heart surgeon.

Overall, this is a very gut wrenching and, at times and extremely enlightening film. While not approving of his final solution, John Q is a very good movie that brings to the spotlight some facts about health care in the United States! {ssintrepid}

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars John Q, another score for Denzel Washington, 19 Feb 2003
I've seen a lot of movies with Denzel Washington, but this one has to be my favorite. It's something we hear about all the time, an insurance company screwing people over, but we never really could consider what that actually meant until now...

The movie is about a family man, he has a wife and a son and his son becomes very ill with heart problems. It is assumed everything will be ok because they all have medical insurance, but there's some technicalities and John Q has to take action.

The movie has a little action, a lot of top quality acting and it's one of those movies that will bring a tear to your eye from time to time... If you're a fan of Denzel or just after a good movie, buy this one!...

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Terrfic Denzel Performance, 26 Nov 2002
By J. E. Parry "Jeff Parry" (Pontypool, Wales) - See all my reviews
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This film is enjoyable but lacks the depth that could have turned it into a real winner.

You are pulled along with the story as you follow the family's treatment at the hands of the US healthcare system. It details how a family can go from having no diffiulty obtaining treatment under their insurance to finding that, because of his employer's cutbacks, they are finally denied this very important benefit. You also ask how a family can be so badly off but still not enough to qualify to Medicare.

This film makes you want to do something about the injustice portrayed. It does make you cry, sympathetic and angry. How the American people can still allow this to happen beggers belief.

Washington's character is both appealing and exasperating. He makes the promise that his son WILL be treated and then we follow him as he hits brickwall after brickwall and can do nothing himself until he has to take drastic action.

What lets this film down slightly is that more could have been made of the hospital's stance and why it was wrong. We have one scene where we begin to get to the root of the problem facing the US healthcare system but it does not really build on this.

The support from Woods, Liotta and Duvall is great but you do feel that more could have been made of their characters. The same applies to Anne Heche as the hospital administrator. Not enough time is spent showing why she responds the way she does.

This is well worth watching.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Most Gripping Film I've watched this year!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Denzel at his Best !!
This is one movie which I feel is probably Denzel Washington at his best.It starts with a family ( Denzel's) trying to keep it together in recession hit America. Read more
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