Extreme Measures (1996)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker
Synopsis:
A British doctor in an American hospital stumbles on a secret programme using down and outs as guinea pigs for the development of a nerve growing technique to repair spinal damage in paraplegics.
Review:
This attempt to launch its star into the thriller genre stumbles about as uncertain of its footing as Hackman's hapless victims of medical research. Grant fails to convince as a Michael Douglas replacement, staggering around New York with a bullet wound.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker
Synopsis:
A British doctor in an American hospital stumbles on a secret programme using down and outs as guinea pigs for the development of a nerve growing technique to repair spinal damage in paraplegics.
Review:
This attempt to launch its star into the thriller genre stumbles about as uncertain of its footing as Hackman's hapless victims of medical research. Grant fails to convince as a Michael Douglas replacement, staggering around New York with a bullet wound.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker
Synopsis:
A British doctor in an American hospital stumbles on a secret programme using down and outs as guinea pigs for the development of a nerve growing technique to repair spinal damage in paraplegics.
Review:
This attempt to launch its star into the thriller genre stumbles about as uncertain of its footing as Hackman's hapless victims of medical research. Grant fails to convince as a Michael Douglas replacement, staggering around New York with a bullet wound.