Extreme Measures (1996)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
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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
Sep 27, 1996 Wide
Dec 14, 1999
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Hugh Grant
Dr. Guy Luthan -
Gene Hackman
Dr. Lawrence Myrick -
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jodie Trammel -
David Morse
Frank Hare -
Bill Nunn
Det. Burke -
John Toles-Bey
Bobby -
Debra Monk
Dr. Judith Gruszynski -
Peter Appel
Det. Stone -
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Paul Guilfoyle
Dr. Jeffery Manko -
Shaun Austin-Olsen
Claude Minkins -
Andre DeSheilds
Teddy Dolsen -
Diana Zimmer
Helen -
J.K. Simmons
Dr. Mingus
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (15) | DVD (6)
It's a fish out of water story in which neither the fish nor anybody else seems aware of his 'out of water' status.
The good liberal Michael Apted seems to think he's directing a film about society's exploitation of the homeless. In fact, the exploitation is all his.
If it's never as scary or provocative as it means to be, at least it's straightforward and satisfying.
A spine-tingling suspense machine that holds you captivated from beginning to end. A much underrated, overlooked thriller.
Extreme silliness, but kind of fun.
Tries to be a both a medical thriller and morality play, and it doesn't quite deliver in both departments.
A thoughtful if somewhat heavy-handed medical thriller that benefits enormously from Hackman's involvement.
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An original plot which has been copied many times including in TV programmes. A good conspiracy film, which presents a great dilema, which will at least make you question the circumstances yourself.