Author: Denzel Washington

Brand: ALL

Edition: No enhanced packaging

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 16-07-2002

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 direction of John Q. by a major Hollywood studio. Starring Denzel Washington, a two-time Oscar-winning actor, this film remains faithful to industry dictates without, however, sinking into sentimentality. John and his wife are the happy parents of a young boy of about ten years old. Despite a lack of money, they raise him in good Christian faith, until the day he is discovered to have a heart defect that will require a transplant. Short on funds to cover the costs of this operation, John goes as far as to take the hospital hostage to prove his commitment to his son. Using proven dramatic devices, John Q. unfolds like a race against time where the good guys – John, his wife, and his friends – struggle through administrative mazes and fight against the bad guys – greedy media, the police, and a healthcare system 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 ultimately successful and moving illustration of the myth of Hollywood-style heroism. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 065935142270

EAN: 0065935142270

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood