Extreme Measures (1996)
 


Genre:Action
Release: 1996
Director:Michael Apted
Distributor:Warner Home Video
 
Starring:
Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker
 
Synopsis
Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a
physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh
Grant), a British doctor serving a residence in a hospital in New York
City, is very puzzled by a patient brought to the emergency room one
night. Naked, disoriented, and bearing a hospital bracelet and a fresh
surgical scar, the mystery man is suffering from a baffling variety of
symptoms, and though he dies not long after he's admitted, Luthan can't
get the patient out of his mind. When he asks to see the records on the
patient a few days later, he's told they no longer exist, and the more he
digs, the more he's convinced that someone knows something they're
not telling. Against the advice of his friend Jodie Trammel (Sarah Jessica
Parker), a nurse and colleague, and the instructions of his superiors,
Luthan keeps digging into this and other strange cases that have come
through the hospital lately. Luthan's sleuthing eventually brings him to the
door of Dr. Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), a well-known surgeon who
is doing research in experimental surgery that could allow patients with
evere spinal injuries to walk again. While Myrick's work is done with the
most noble of intentions, there turns out to be a sinister undercurrent to
his research techniques. Actress Elizabeth Hurley, Grant's offscreen
ignificant other, was co-producer for this picture, the first from their joint
production company. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


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