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• Director: Tom Vaughan
• Release Date:
• Writers: Robert Nelson Jacobs
• Run Time: 106
• Genre: Drama

Watch movie: Extraordinary Measures

Tagline: And $100 Billion Is an Extraordinary Measure

Review: Extraordinary Measures comes to us from the real world of biotechnology and medical research. Based on the experiences of a man who is losing his three children to rare disease, the audience is treated to a sophisticated retelling of a book by Greeta Anand, who’s won the Pulitzer Prize for her work in journalism, “The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million- and Bucked the Medical Establishment- in a Quest to Save His Children”. The film was adapted for the screen by Robert Nelson Jacobs. The plot is simple enough: man’s children are suffering unto death from a rare disease known only as Pompe, or acid maltase deficiency, so he goes out and starts a biotech company that will find a cure for it in time to save the kids. Brendan Fraser plays Dad. Enter Harrison Ford, the intense medical research pro who helps Dad race for the cure and fight the powers that be which want to stand in his way for apparently no good reason but power, control and profit, the usual corporate greed suspects. The script is remarkable in keeping the balance between medical speak and human dramatics to keep the audience spellbound. There wasn’t , thank goodness, a need for a pause button because the writers kept it on a basic level while addressing a very complex disease. Whenever kids’ lives hang in the balance as a plot theme, the film maker pretty much has to mess up profoundly in order to lose the audience. But it has happened before and could have easily happened in Extraordinary. Several things helped besides keeping the technology/medicine nexus jargon to a minimum. The other main ingredient was Harrison Ford- you just want Harry to win. And his track record in movies is pretty good as far as winning goes, so the risk is minimal and the audience naturally commits. The second is Brendan Fraser. He just looks and acts like the All-American Dad who wants to save his kids no matter what. So the film is real to boot.