The medical drama Extraordinary Measures has been marketed as story about quiet heroism, doing the right thing and overcoming great odds. There's much pulling of the bootstraps and milking of the tear ducts on the way to an ending that only an old grump (yes, we're looking at you, Harrison Ford) couldn't love.
The movie tells the fictionalized story of the Crowley family, whose two youngest children are afflicted with a metabolic disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and short life expectancy.
Shortly after celebrating daughter Megan's (Meredith Droeger) eighth birthday, John (Brendan Fraser) learns that she won't live much longer.He goes looking for the one man he believes can help save his children, researcher Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford).
With Stonehill, Ford may well be playing the closest version of his true self he has ever committed to screen -- dour, serious, anti-social and, let's be honest, a little bit dull.
Extraordinary Measures is rated PG for thematic material, language and a mild suggestive moment. Running time: 104 minutes. (out of four). Playing: Showing: Grand 18, Wynnsong 12, Carmike 10, Kernersville Countryside, Starmount, Creekside.
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