Extraordinary Measures

Reviewed by Van of Urantia

  • Drama
  • 106 minutes
  • MPAA rating: PG

Sometimes a movie comes along that gives you hope for humanity. This is the true story of parents who try to raise large sums of money to help Dr. Robert Stonehill (played by Harrison Ford) to continue research to cure a rare genetic disorder. The parents have 2 children (a boy and girl), pre-teens who are dying of this rare disease, and the parents determination (as well as the doctors) to find not only a cure but to fight against the system of bureaucracy in the healthcare system that provides basically no free services for care or research, even though children are dying. The parents had to raise a half a million dollars just to start their research.

Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford

~Van of Urantia

*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America

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