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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Cinemalogue.comRubin SafayaIt seems there's one jackass doctor for every desperate father in America. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowFord inhabits the role the way his character inhabits his well-worn jeans and t-shirt. |
| FromTheBalconyBill Clark...a film so bent on hiding and joking its way around its subject matter that it simply becomes a TV movie with recognizable faces. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithTrue, the general audiences doesn't need hours of complex biochemistry talk they won't understand, but surely there's a better way of getting around it than showing Ford sitting in a lab coat writing on a dry erase board to rock music. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThere’s something off-putting about this film’s optimism: After all, how many people can afford to do what Crowley did? |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreExtraordinary Measures isn’t extraordinary. It’s simply safe. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderNot subtle, exactly, but within the range of mawkishness that is acceptable to humans. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallSometimes feels like one of those "disease of the week" TV movies from the 1970s. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottIf you're careful and limit the soda intake, you won't leave the theater with a sugar high. |
| What Would Toto Watch?Christian TotoExtraordinary Measures battles to overcome the 'disease of the week' tag - and eventually succeeds. |
