The father
of a child affected by a rare disease actually starts a biotech company to
develop a cure.
Ah, the
ever lovable sub genre of extraordinary stuff done by parents to save their
sick children.
As a tear
jerkin, oh my god those kids are sick, movie it kinda works. Is based on a true
story, which always adds gravitas, and the kids on the wheelchair are certainly
heart rending. Is the other half, the interesting one, that doesn’t really work.
See when
the movie shift from the family matters to the “lets develop a cure” stuff it
becomes confused. Our heroes face many problems but we don’t really understand
them. The only clear point is that the doctor is very antisocial and that if he
had a better personality everything would be much easier.
That’s a
problem, they substituted the actual problems that they weren’t able to explain,
with fictional problem which are simply much less interesting.
A part from
that the movie got decent pacing and solid work from everybody involved.
Harrison ford plays yet another time the person with no social skills which he
did so much better in Morning Glory and Cowboys and Aliens while Brendan Fraser
and Keri Russel deliver all the angsty stuff.
There is
the seed of a good movie here, shame that they couldn’t build on it.
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