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John Q. [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![John Q. [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZV1258B6L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Obba Babatunde, Troy Beyer, Kevin Connolly, Shera Danese, Eddie Griffin
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 70037
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DN5468D
ISBN: 0780637577
UPC: 794043546822
EAN: 9780780637573
ASIN: B00005JKWX
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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 false moral February 11, 2008
Carlos Vazquez Quintana (Linares- Spain)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film I think is basically failed because it rests over false charity and a main erroneous principle: life of a child with a deadly disease is however more worth that these of his father, a healthy and still young adult.
The plot is shown in gross traces: John Q, an Afroamerican man, worker of heavy machinery but traversing temporal difficulties to find a full time job, has a little son over 7 years old who suffers a dismay. John has a medical insurance policy and his son enters in the correspondent hospital. That's a good hospital, but the child need nothing less than a heart transplantation or he will die. The big problem is there are no hearts easily and the cheap insurance policy of John Q doesn't covers by far such expensive intervention. Hopeless, John resources to all things to join more money, but such operation costs 250000 dollars. He attains to get only about 20000. Pressed to the limit also by his wife, finally John Q takes the decision to assault with a pistol the emergency hall of the hospital. He menaces with killing everybody here if his son isn't attended. Police intervenes, but as the demands of John are impossible to satisfy, he decides to kill himself and donate his own heart to his son.
This is the core of this movie fully unbelievable and I think a psychological error, although spectacular for people who hasn't little experience of life. The film shows well some deficiencies of the USA health services, but real fathers in such terrible situation must resign, and although very painful, in real life, probably they engender another son. For me this film assumes an unbelievable thesis. In a interval, John prays to God for a miracle and charity, and this is the case these charity happens owing to an opportune car accident that provides the desired heart from a woman killed in the crash, but one asks himself what class of charity and luck had the dead woman That's a clear concession to avoid a real, bitter ending. Summing up, a Manichaean movie with plain, gross trace characters roughly divided between bad or misery people vs. good people, little acceptable as the problems dealt are real but require more fine treatment.
 Health is a basic human right August 14, 2007
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
This film is the pioneer and precursor of Michael More's documentary Sicko recently released, but this one is based on a fictional situation. What is a father ready to do to enable his son to get a heart transplant? And what is the system able to do to prevent him from getting it because he does not have enough insurance coverage? The second question is easy to answer: nothing and the system will let the child die. No insurance coverage, no treatment. The first question is a lot more difficult to answer; the film goes very far in the fiction and yet it is absolutely believable. Yes a father is able to kidnap innocent people and medical personnel to impose a positive solution. Then the rest is pure luck, haphazard chance, good effective media, a lot of human feeling, a mistake done by the shoot-first-ask-questions-second chief of police in his four star uniform, and of course a lot of sympathy from the public which is perfectly understandable when you know 46 millions Americans have no health coverage at all and probably twenty more millions have a partial coverage, i.e. not full coverage or full coverage not all the time. The film is of course very effective emotionally, and it uses some short sequences from the news programs of the 1990s when Hillary Clinton was trying in the name of her husband to convince Congress to pass legislation on the subject and failed. I think even to kill yourself to provide your own son with a heart is an option that could be considered by some fathers. Of course the film did not emphasize the real negative sides of the problem, the greediness of some doctors, the total indifference of most administrative personnel, the brutality of the police in such cases who would consider a forceful solution before a peaceful one. But there must be some dream even when dealing with such a subject.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
 This didn't work for me... March 5, 2006
HC (london United Kingdom)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The story had it all going for it and Denzel’s acting was up to scratch as usual, however, for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, this film just didn't gel together. Characters seemed to change their mind for no obvious reason and others who were once adamant in their point of view were easily talked round with a few lines of moralistic gush. All slightly unrealistic. I think this film is aimed squarely at middle America i.e. extremely sentimental and proud people that are a bit simple. That said, my wife did enjoy it!!
Give a father no choice he has no option! April 7, 2005
laura (england)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If there is ever a film that displays a fathers love its john q!me and brother have watched this film so many times this year, after only discovering it not too long ago!its so dramatic it hurts?!i mean a father taking out a hospital so his son can have a new heart?give me a tissue!or a box!We all know Americas hospital system sucks!but is it really this dramatic?!Denzel is on true form playing the dad who does everything i mean everything, to raise cash for his sons new heart even if it means taking his own!but wait!a women with the same tissue, same heart ,same size has just had a car accident and is dead yipee!guess what she also has a donor card. Mikey his body building obsessed son (dont ask) mite be saved, but is it to late to tell john before he pulls that trigger?!DVD EXTRAS are superb on this loadsa deleted scenes, infact so many an extra hour cud have been added to this film (we're glad it wasnt tho)definate purchase am going to buy mine now!
John Q Review November 9, 2004
rach and zara (Thornton,Blackpool)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Imagine you are a black man with a dying child who needs a heart transplant.This film is a great film to watch,it is a drama/comedy film it is funny but very emotional.It is about a black couple who have a son called mikey who is obsessed with wrestling.
Mikey falls down in a baseball game and gets imediately rushed to the hospital.In hospital john q archibald(denzel washington) and his wife get told their son will die if he doesnt get a transplant but they cant raise the money for the operation so they try to raise money for the operation so Johns wife says 'do anything you can to get our son on that operation list'.
so John goes and byes a gun and holds up a ward with 11 hostages who are,a women who has been beaten by her boyfriend who is sat with her,there is a pregnant women with her fiance,a spanish women with a baby,a black man,a security guard and 3 doctors.We think this is the greatest film we've seen this year and you should go and see it!!
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