PG-13 (for violence,language and intense thematic elements)
Genre:
Drama, Action/Adventure
Release Date:
February 15, 2002
Running time:
118 minutes
Cast:
Denzel Washington, Robert DuVall, Anne Heche, James Woods, Eddie Griffin
Director:
Nick Cassavetes
Producer:
Mark Burg, Oren Koules
Writer:
James Kearns
Distributor:
New Line Cinema
Description: John Q. Archibald is an ordinary man who works at a factory and takes care of his family. His wife Denise and young son Michael are his world. But when Michael falls seriously ill and needs an emergency heart transplant operation that John Q. can't afford and his health insurance won't cover, he vows to do whatever it will take to keep his son alive. With time and options running out, a desperate gamble becomes his only hope- he takes the emergency room hostage. As John Q. barricades himself inside the hospital along with his unwitting group of emergency room hostages, many of them in need of medical care themselves, he faces off with a veteran police hostage negotiator and a quick-tempered police chief who wants to bring a swift end to the stand-off.
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