John Q
Release Date:
February 15, 2002
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Screenwriter: James Kearns
Starring:
Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche, James Woods, Eddie Griffin, Ray Liotta, Kimberley Elise, Shawn Hatosy, Kevin Connolly, Jeff Douglas, Paul Johansson, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Daniel E. Smith, Dina Spybey, Ethan Suplee, Heather Wahlquist
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, language and intense thematic elements)
Official Website:
IamJohnQ.com
Review: 4/5 stars
DVD/VHS: Not available
Movie Poster: Not available
Plot Summary: John Q. Archibald (Washington) is an ordinary man who works at a factory and takes care of his family. His wife Denise (Elise) and young son Michael (Smith) are his
world. But when Michael falls seriously ill and needs an emergency heart transplant operation that John Q. can't afford and his health insurance won't cover, he vows to do whatever it will take
to keep his son alive. With time and options running out, a desperate gamble becomes his only hope -- he takes the emergency room hostage. As John Q. barricades himself inside the hospital along
with his unwitting group of emergency room hostages, many of them in need of medical care themselves, he faces off with a veteran police hostage negotiator (Duvall) and a quick-tempered police
chief (Liotta) who wants to bring a swift end to the stand-off.
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