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John Q (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 125 Fresh: 28  Rotten:97 Average Rating: 4.4/10
 
Consensus: Washington's performance rises above the material, but John Q pounds the audience over the head with its message.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

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... 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. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche, James Woods, Ray Liotta

Director: Nick Cassavetes
Screenwriter: James Kearns
Producer: Mark Burg, Oren Koules
Composer: Aaron Zigman

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 7, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Nick Cassavetes - Director, James Kearns - Screenwriter, Mark Burg - Star, Rogier Stoffers - Director of Photography
  • Featurettes - 1. BEHIND THE SCENES OF JOHN Q.
  • 2. FIGHTING FOR CARE
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

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  • Trivia Facts

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  • Script-to-Screen
  • Web Links

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Great for thirty-five minutes, then drops into a dead zone and stays there for an hour and change.

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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Doesn't so much need a heart as a brain transplant.

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04/22/02
Neil Smith
BBC
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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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09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
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Social messages, simplistic action, and teary melodrama are manipulatively but unsuccessfully mixed in this picture, which tries to provide a "hard" look at an honest working-class man (Washington) who loses control while trying to save his child's life

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Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think.

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01/07/04
Greg Maki
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05/13/03
Wilson Morales
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Washington, Woods, and Duvall are so capable, they almost save this schlock-fest from itself.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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A coercive script by James Kearns, and some middling direction by Nick Cassavetes, can't rob the movie of an undeniable, headlong crowd-pleasing power as it tackles an issue that touches us all.

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01/21/03
John Patterson
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