Harken back to Nick Nolte's performance in a MOVIE called "Lorenzo's Oil" in 1992. Same deal here as the characters of Brendan Fraser and Nick Nolte are fathers with child(ren) afflicted with rare and horrid diseases...then again, any disease that gets kids is horrid. Against amazing odds, each father finds a cure for his kid(s) just in time.
I capitalize MOVIE as Lorenzo's was a movie for theaters (aka big screens) whereas "Extraordinary Measures" could not quite escape the TV movie feel. Keri Russell (Fraser's movie wife) is on the up escalator from TV to movies here, and as she rides up, she seems to pass Fraser and Harrison Ford who are on the down escalator from Moives to TV. All in all, it is a feel good movie and you feel good as Fraser and Ford triumph! However, this has TV within 4 months written all over it, so if you can wait that long, do so.
Other than Harrison Ford's overplaying the cantankerous but brilliant scientist, the acting is good. The script, directing, and cinematography are good as well. The only beef I have is that I could not place the Seattle location of the Zymogenetics' Lab. I think it was Nike's Beaverton, OR headquarters...that bugged me.
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