By Anna Pickard in the [UK] Guardian

Extraordinary Measures, starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, features “a sad dad’s relentless efforts to fund a maverick medic’s search for a cure for his terminally ill kiddies.” The film was “inspired by” the story of John Crowley, a New Jersey dad who worked to find a cure for Pompe’s disease, a rare genetic disorder.

An excerpt:

The tagline is important in Extraordinary Measures. It appears right at the end of the trailer: “Don’t hope for a miracle. Make one.”

This could refer to many things. Conquering the apparently unconquerable through the power of the human spirit alone is a common enough theme at the movies. Or it could refer to a blatant attempt to win some award -– any award, but preferably a big, shiny, person-shaped one -– by an on-the-wane actor.

Extraordinary Measures will be released later this month.

Crowley and his family were featured in the book “The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million — and Bucked the Medical Establishment — in a Quest to Save His Children,” by Geeta Anand, which in turn started as a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal.

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