John Q

2002 116 min Drama, Thriller, Crime

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

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IMDb 7.1 RT 26 Metacritic 30

budget $36,000,000 earnings $102,244,770 return 2.8x

director Nick Cassavetes

writer James Kearns

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