Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

alyonaskya This movie had Harrison Ford playing himself; basically an asshole. This a good, emotional movie that won't disappoint almost any movie watcher.

ronfernandezsf A heartwarming film that has no crashes or special effects and NO foul language. For that alone, this movie worth watching. Good performances by the three leads, especially Harrison Ford who is now a character actor as opposed to his strong leading man roles. Yes, everyone ages and one can't young and handsome forever.What would have made this a little more realistic is if one or both of the parents had siblings, Mothers, Fathers or other relatives involved. They wee certainly young enough to have living parents. For sure the grandparents would have been involved in this situation and had visited often or even gone to the Hospital for the initial treatment.

gradyharp EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES is a film to watch with family and friends - including and especially children. It is based on the book by Geeta Anand called 'The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million - And Bucked the Medical Establishment - in a Quest to Save His Children' and the title of the book pretty much explains the film. Adapted for the screen by Robert Nelson Jacobs and directed by Tom Vaughan it has the courage to tackle a sensitive subject and manage to bring credibility to the struggle between medical research and health care delivery.It is important to understand the disease that initiates the action and story of this film. Pompe disease is a rare inherited neuromuscular disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness in people of all ages. Pompe disease is caused by a defective gene that results in a deficiency of an enzyme, acid alpha-glucosidase. The absence of this enzyme results in excessive buildup of a substance called glycogen, a form of sugar that is stored in a specialized compartment of muscle cells throughout the body.John and Aileen Crowley (Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell)are a Portland couple have two children, Megan (Meredith Droeger) and Patrick (Diego Velazquez)with Pompe disease as well as an older child John, Jr. (Sam M. Hall) who is free of the disease. John is an advertising executive, hears about and contacts Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill's research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill's angry outburst hinder the company's faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John's hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.Among the beautiful moments and messages of this film are the reactions of the children to their disease, Dr. Stonehill's hermetic existence in researching a disease about which few fellow scientists seem to care, and above all the devotion of the Crowley's to overcome the hurdle that face them in bringing the research home to the benefit of their own children as well as to the afflicted children around the globe. The cast is uniformly strong and involve us in the quest for the support simple people bring to the discovery of cures. Grady Harp

tieman64 "We've gotta get better cleavage between the alpha and beta sub-units." – Harrison Ford (Extraordinary Measures) An inferior version of "Lorenzo's Oil", "Extraordinary Measures" revolves around a family's attempts to find a cure for their son, who suffers from a rare, life threatening disease.The film screams "TV movie", and actors Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser turn in poor work, but the film's core message (that bureaucracy, pig-headedness and the almighty dollar stand in the way of progress, co-operation and man's ability to overcome obstacles) is worthwhile.The film serves up a happy ending, hurdles overcome and the kid saved by science. In reality, the cure that is used to save the boy costs $300,000 a year for life. It is so expensive that many American insurance companies refuse to pay for it, and it is widely available only in countries with universal health coverage. In other words, the film's happy ending is disingenuous. The problems overcome to find the cure are the problems which prevent the cure from reaching only the wealthiest of patients.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.