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Extraordinary Measures
Directed by
Tom Vaughan
PG
2010
1h 46m
Drama
6.4
29%
53%
6.3
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A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.
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Cast of Extraordinary Measures
Brendan Fraser
John Crowley
Harrison Ford
Dr. Robert Stonehill / Executive Producer
Keri Russell
Aileen Crowley
Courtney B. Vance
Marcus Temple
Meredith Droeger
Megan Crowley
Diego Velazquez
Patrick Crowley
Jared Harris
Docteur Kent Webber
Patrick Bauchau
CEO Erich Loring
Alan Ruck
Pete Sutphen
David Clennon
Dr. Renzler
Dee Wallace
Sal
Ayanna Berkshire
Wendy Temple
P.J. Byrne
Dr. Preston
G.J. Echternkamp
Niles
Vu Pham
Vinh Tran
Derek Webster
Cal Dunning
Jana Lee Hamblin
Renzler Scientist #1
Christopher D. Harder
Researcher
Tra'Renee Chambers
Night Nurse (Marcy)
Lily Mariye
Dr. Waldman
Extraordinary Measures Ratings & Reviews
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
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
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Watching it is extremely easy, and at just under two hours it gets to the point quickly never coming close to wearing out its welcome.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
There's something off-putting about this film's optimism: After all, how many people can afford to do what Crowley did?
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
It sometimes feels like one of those "disease of the week" TV movies from the 1970s.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's about as dramatically taut as your garden-variety board meeting. And it makes you realize that jerking a tear or two isn't necessarily a bad thing for a filmmaker to do, if it at least keeps your audience awake.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Anyway, I cried. A lot. What can I say? I'm a sucker for kids on ventilators.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Far from an awful film, it's merely a completely inconsequential one, forgettable in a way that used to be acceptable during the CBS Evening News on a Sunday night but isn't when you're paying modern prices for a movie ticket.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Vaughan has a tendency to underline, italicize and boldface the emotion when no such emphasis is needed.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
As the film builds to a credulity-testing climax, there is less schmaltz than you might expect from the screenwriter of Chocolat -- though the filmmakers seldom hesitate to milk the Crowley kids and other Pompe-afflicted children for tears.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
Ford inhabits the role the way his character inhabits his well-worn jeans and t-shirt.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Extraordinary Measures requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
The story is poignant and compelling, but ultimately the film doesn't have the heft it needs to fill out the big screen.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Harrison Ford is always watchable in this otherwise routine tear-jerker.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Ultimately about how feeling and objectivity can work together, and also about how the protocols of medical research and development can both enable and obstruct progress.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Here's the most extraordinary thing about Extraordinary Measures: I sort of liked it.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Medical research might be dramatic as hell for those who do it, but hunched nerds in lab coats don't offer much excitement for average movie goers.
Entertainment Weekly
Kate Ward
Fraser works so hard playing a devoted dad, it's damn hard not to root for him.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The teamwork of the actors may seem bland at first, but it grows into something spikier. Ford and Fraser tap into both their ability to generate movie-star charisma and their considerable talent for character acting.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
There might be a poignant movie based on the true story of a father's devoted efforts to help his ailing children, la Lorenzo's Oil. But this tediously told tale is not that movie.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A slack, well-meaning disease-of-the-week drama of the sort one might encounter on the Hallmark Channel.
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