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Don't hope for a miracle. Make one.
2010 · 1h 46m · PG
Drama
Directed by
Tom Vaughan
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Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of his wife, John ditches his career and teams with unconventional specialist, Dr. Robert Stonehill to found a bio-tech company and develop a cure in time to save the lives of his children. As Dr. Stonehill works tirelessly to prove the theories that made him the black sheep of the medical community, a powerful bond is forged between the two unlikely allies.
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Harrison Ford still retains enough of his old movie star magic to ramp up the electricity a bit when he's onscreen, but this only makes you want to see him do something that makes better use of his gifts. Brendan Fraser just seems to grow bigger over the
Moderately illuminating in parts, but the clichA (C)s of cinematic suffering tend to overwhelm it.
There's something off-putting about this film's optimism: After all, how many people can afford to do what Crowley did?
It sometimes feels like one of those "disease of the week" TV movies from the 1970s.
It's about as dramatically taut as your garden-variety board meeting. And it makes you realize that jerking a tear or two isn't necessarily a bad thing for a filmmaker to do, if it at least keeps your audience awake.
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