EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES Movie (2010)
A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.
A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child's tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, 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.
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Storyline
A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child's tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, 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.
Details
- Rated: PG
- Runtime: 1:46 hours
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Tom Vaughan
- Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs, Geeta Anand (book)
- Actors: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Meredith Droeger
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Awards: 1 win
- Production Company: CBS Films
- Box Office: $11,854,694
- ASIN: B002ZG97J2
- Year Released: 2010
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2010
- DVD Date: May 17, 2010
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