John Q

John Q

2002 "Give a father no options and you leave him no choice."
John Q
John Q

John Q

7.1 | 1h56m | PG-13 | en | Drama

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

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7.1 | 1h56m | PG-13 | en | Drama , Thriller , Crime | More Info
Released: February. 15,2002 | Released Producted By: New Line Cinema , Burg/Koules Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

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Cast

Denzel Washington , James Woods , Kimberly Elise

Director

Andrea Kristof

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New Line Cinema , Burg/Koules Productions

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muzzypatmn This business about insurance companies ripping off people is so appropriate to our country and to the situation the GOP wants to take us back to. Health care for those that can pay for it and the heck with the rest. Here we are 16 years later and the same crap is going on. The ACA was a good start but all the GOP wants to repeal it. We need healthcare improved and made universal. Re-release it and make the GOP watches it.
adonis98-743-186503 John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant. John Q didn't please critics (like most films this days) but it's action packed tension, the amazing and moving perfomance from Denzel Washington and the father and son relationship alongside the moving ending makes this an interesting and terrific drama that hits some messages and tells somethings that needed to be said. (A+)
ahzach-574-590248 Ugh. The whole movie is just a bunch of propaganda about free, universal health care. The story is moving and the acting not bad. In the end it actually tells you that we should have universal health care. Just liberal Hollywood propaganda. Maybe one of the most liberal films ever made. Conservatives and non-socialists don't watch it will hurt you nerves.(speaking from personal experience). Of course, the kid should not be left to die; private charity is way better than government welfare, something that the film deliberately hides. It is so one-sided and wants to present all people opposing socialist health care as evil. I know this is a film of 2002 but if it was made today it would be a good propaganda weapon for Obama's socialist policies.
Bosco-HK Denzel Washington plays John Quincy Archibald, father of Mike (Daniel E. Smith) falls hard all of a sudden at a baseball game, which ultimately set the story in motion. The diagnosis, needing a heart transplant, everything only get harder when John goes to the insurance company and finds that his insurance does not cover this type of procedure.The movie tells about an American society that has been blinded by capitalism. Everything is in the dire hands of 'Money'. The hospital, unwilling to do what they would normally do to save someone's life, turns a head… only to put his son onto the transplant list if they had the money. James Woods who stars as Dr. Raymond Turner, display rigidness of professionalism, while Anne Heche who stars as Rebecca Payne, display utter coldness that nearly got me wanting to pick up a chair and throw it at her.Every day even before what had just happened, John and his wife Denise (Kimberly Elise) tries their best to make ends meet, and then now trying and doing everything possible to collect money needed just to get his son on the list. A father, loving and caring, must come up with 250,000 dollars to pay for his son's heart transplant. Their friends, and countless others, do their best to help the couple raise money. Soon, almost everything they have is on the market and sold.It was not enough. Out of options, and out of time, a father pushed to the limits to save his son. In all desperation and having hardly enough to get anything accomplished, John holds the entire hospital's emergency room hostage. He sets the one demand for his son to be put on that list so that the doctors can proceed with the transplant. The ending only leaves you chills to the bone as to what a father is left to do in order to be heard.Denzel Washington is one of the greatest actors of our time and he proves it here playing a father in utter distraught. I recommend this movie!