Watch Extraordinary Measures Online

It’s probably appropriate in some way, at this time of controversial health care reform, for a movie like Extraordinary Measures to be released. The draw of this picture, though, is more likely to be the same element that recently worked out so well for The Blind Side. Watch Extraordinary Measures online and you may think about preparing for another fix of feel-good. You’d be right, of course, but it also seems to have a little something extra to it.

When you watch Extraordinary Measures online, you’ll get the premise quickly. Like The Blind Side, it is a true story. In the film, the father of two children with the same disease refuses to accept the short grim future projected for them and sets out to commission a private researcher himself to find a cure. Watch Extraordinary Measures online and see two top box office stars, Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, in the main roles of father and researcher, respectively. Keri Russell, from the past TV series, Felicity, stars as Fraser’s wife.

The script was written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, which may not mean much unless you also know he was also screenwriter for Chocolat. Though this film may have a different tone, you can guess by watching Extraordinary Measures online that at least the quality of writing will be just as good. The story is based on Geeta Anand’s book, The Cure.

What you might be especially interested in when you watch Extraordinary Measures online is the featurette about the real-life man, John Crowley. An MBA from Harvard, Crowley’s personal quest to save the lives of his children, who both have Pompe disease, resulted in the founding of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals.

To watch Extraordinary Measures online is to get the bulk, if not the entirety, of the Crowley family’s story. What seems to be notable, though, is the element of personal choice that becomes necessary for this brave father. Watch Extraordinary Measures online, with the Crowley featurette, and it’s obvious that the real man is as extraordinary as the one on film. Clearly, there could not have been a better choice for the film’s title than this.