Author: Denzel Washington

Brand: ALL

Edition: No enhanced packaging

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 2002-07-16

Details: Product description The DVD extras include "Fighting for Care," a documentary featurette, as well as audio commentary from the director, screenwriter, producer, and director of photography. One can also select optional Infinifilm pop-ups that trigger one- to two-minute expan Amazon.ca After an extraordinary first feature film ( She's So Lovely), Nick Cassavetes, son of the illustrious John, was entrusted with the production of John Q. by a major Hollywood studio. Starring Denzel Washington, actor who has already won two Oscars, this film remains faithful to the dictates of the industry without, however, sinking into sentimentality. John and his wife are the happy parents of a ten-year-old boy. Despite the lack of money, they raise him in good Christian faith, until the day when he is discovered to have a heart defect which will require a transplant. Short of means to cover the costs of this operation, John will go so far as to take the hospital hostage to prove his commitment to his son. According to proven drama springs, John Q. unfolds like a race against time where the good guys – John, his wife and friends – struggle through the maze of bureaucracy and battle the bad guys – the greedy media, the police, a system healthcare that only treats the rich. Despite a simplistic and Manichean structure, and thanks to the charisma of Denzel Washington, one cannot help but see in this film an overall successful and moving illustration of the myth of Hollywood-style heroism. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 065935142270

EAN: 0065935142270

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood