| Overall: | B+ |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B+ |
| Sexual Content: | B+ |
| Language: | C |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
| Run Time: | 107 |
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| Video Release: | 18 May 2010 |
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A desperate father takes a surgeon and patients hostage in an attempt to get medical treatment for his daughter in John Q. Parents also go take extraordinary measures to help seriously ill children in the movies Lorenzos Oil, My Sisters Keeper and The Brooke Ellison Story.
Home Video Extra Features
Release Date: 18 May 2010
Extraordinary Measures releases to DVD and Blu-ray with the following extras:
- Behind the scenes: Interviews with the cast and also the family whose true story inspired the film.
-Deleted Scenes.
Extraordinary Measures on Blu-ray also includes:
- movieIQ+sync
- BD-Live

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.