Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Extraordinary Measures

Inspired by a true story, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russel star as John and Alieen Crowley.  These two parents risk everything they have to save their two children's lives because they have pompe.  The doctor says they can usually live up to nine years old and after that they will start getting very weak.  Also the doctor said that he wishes that he could help but there is no medicine or cure for this fatal disease.  So John, the dad, started searching and looking for a cure for the fatal pompe disease because he wants to try and save his kids.  His daughter was in really bad shape in the hospital and the doctors didn’t know if she was going to make it or not.  The next day the doctor said he has never seen anyone fight as hard as she did to live.  When John looked into his daughters eyes, he knew he would do anything to save her and his sons lives.   John did a lot of research and made a lot of calls and found a scientist Dr. Robert Stonehill that had a theory about pompe.  He believed he couldn’t cure his children but could save there lives.  John pushes the scientist and a company to find a cure for his two young children.  Some times in the movie John and Dr. Stonehill would get annoyed with each other because of the fight against time to get the needed drug approved.  This is a good movie that shows how much families would do for there children.  Don’t hope for a miracle, make one!  How far would you go to save your kids lives?   



1 comment:

  1. Sarah, the majority of this blog is plot summary. I only hear your "review" in the last two sentences. Since you only have 250 precious words, don't waste them on retelling the plot. Instead you can provide a link to an online summary. Focus on your thoughts about the movie...the positives and the negatives. Is it worth checking out? Why or why not? Is this blog going to focus on movie recommendations?

    I like the picture!

    Also, I'd like you to work on a jazzier title.

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