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John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zigman, Aaron (Composer)
Other Authors: Kearns, James (Screenwriter) (Screenwriter), Washington, Denzel, 1954- (Actor), Duvall, Robert (Actor), Woods, James, 1947- (Actor), Heche, Anne (Actor), Griffin, Eddie, 1968- (Actor), Elise, Kimberly, 1971- (Actor), Hatosy, Shawn, 1975- (Actor), Liotta, Ray (Actor), Smith, Daniel E., 1992- (Actor), Stoffers, Rogier (director of photography.), Pásztor, Beatrix, 1958- (Costume designer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : New Line Cinema, [2002]
Subjects:
Health services accessibility > Drama.
Health maintenance organizations > Drama.
Health maintenance organization patients > Drama.
Fathers and sons > United States > Drama.
Hostages > United States > Drama.
Health maintenance organizations.
Patients.
Health Maintenance Organizations
Patients
Prisoners
United States
Assurance-maladie à prépaiement.
patients.
Fathers and sons
Health maintenance organization patients
Health maintenance organizations
Health services accessibility
Hostages
Drama.
Webcast
Feature films > United States.
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Internet videos
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Suspense films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Thrillers (Films)
Films de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)
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Summary:John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (112 min.)) : sound, color
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence, language and intense thematic elements.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Rogier Stoffers ; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pazstor ; production designer, Stefania Cella ; music, Aaron Zigman ; editor, Dede Allen.