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John Q
Due to a national health care crisis in the United States, John Quincy Archibald's insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant. With no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint.
3 March 1964, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
23 January 1971, Prince Edward Island, Canada
18 December 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 October 1963, New York City, New York, USA
23 May 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
8 June 1971, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
22 February 1990, Tampa, Florida, USA
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
14 July 1970, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
21 July 1970, Santiago, Chile
May 17, 2009
Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material. [Blu-ray]
September 24, 2007
The movie comes dangerously close to saying that the solution to a personal grievance is, well, terrorism, when you get right down to it.
February 24, 2002
It pulls out more stops than that old silent serial The Perils of Pauline. Unfortunately, it's a talkie.
January 07, 2004
Instead of presenting the story and allowing us to draw our own conclusions, Cassavetes blatantly tells us what we should think.
January 01, 2011
Thought-provoking. Too intense for young teens.
December 18, 2006
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
November 06, 2002
A polemic in search of a plot.
April 29, 2009
A hokey and often silly commentary about the medical industry, and corruption within the establishment.
February 21, 2002
Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon.
March 13, 2002
Manipulative sentimentality, contrived plot and phony climax.
January 21, 2003
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.
March 04, 2002
A sappy, melodramatic Denzel Washington vehicle that ensnares you in the standard hostage-movie scenario and doesn't let go until the director runs the whole playbook.