John Q
Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it.Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
- Director
- Nick Cassavetes
- Worldwide
- $102M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
30 billed performers
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John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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Box Office & Release
John Q returned 2.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $36M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $102M
- Release date
- Feb 15, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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