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Release Date:
27 September 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Not all surgery is intended to cure. Don't move a muscle.
Plot:
Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts...
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Bloody wonderful and totally underrated
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Hugh Grant | ... | Dr. Guy Luthan | |
| Gene Hackman | ... | Dr. Lawrence Myrick | |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | ... | Jodie Trammel | |
| David Morse | ... | FBI Agent Frank Hare | |
| Bill Nunn | ... | Det. Bob Burke | |
| John Toles-Bey | ... | Bobby | |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Dr. Jeffrey Manko | |
| Debra Monk | ... | Dr. Judith Gruszynski | |
| Shaun Austin-Olsen | ... | Claude Minkins | |
| André De Shields | ... | Teddy Dolson | |
| J.K. Simmons | ... | Dr. Mingus | |
| Peter Appel | ... | Det. Stone | |
| Diana Zimmer | ... | Helen | |
| Nancy Beatty | ... | Ruth Myrick | |
| Gerry Becker | ... | Dr. Gene Spitelli |
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Rated R for violence, language, some nudity and graphic ER activity.
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118 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Brazil:14 |
Canada:A (Ontario) |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:12 (bw) |
Netherlands:16 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Norway:15
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In the movie, security for the illegal medical experiments is provided by two supposed police officers named Hare and Burke. In reality, William Hare and William Burke were two men in the business of supplying human cadavers to medical schools in 1820s Edinburgh - until it was learned that the ones they hadn't stolen from graveyards, they had murdered themselves.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: Arriving in The Room Dr. Luthan's lips clearly moves, but the words "...if someone's there listening" can be heard seconds later.
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Dr. Lawrence Myrick:
What if there was hope? What would it be worth to be able to walk again? To be able to feed yourself? To go back to your old life? To be a doctor? What would you endure?
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Referenced in Strongbad_email.exe: Disc Six (2008) (V)
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ON MY MIND
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When I saw "Extreme measures" for the first time I didn't expect anything special from it. Just a basic thriller among others and that's pretty much it. However as it turned out, "Extreme measures" has a certain place in my top 10 of "the best suspense movies of the 90's". I think this movie has never received all the recognition it deserves. "Extreme measures" delivers excellent acting, fascinating plot, cool action and lots of excitement and most important of all, it gives birth to a rather interesting ethical question.
The story gets deeper and deeper and film really keeps the viewer in the edge of the seat. In the end even the bad guy (splendidly played by Gene Hackman) turns out to be, how should I put it...a "good" bad guy. If you haven't seen this thriller yet, I must say that I envy you because naturally the experience is the most impressive in the first time around when you haven't heard too much about this and haven't got a slightest idea what to expect. The less you know about this film in advance, the better. Actually I feel that even the mere trailer uncovers too much. Watch it, enjoy it.