John Q [Blu-ray]

Director: Nick Cassavetes Nick Cassavetes

Overview

A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real-life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film. Denzel Washington stars as John Q. Archibald, a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. When his young son, Michael (Daniel E. Smith), is stricken during a baseball game, John and his wife, Denise (Kimberly Elise), discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although the Archibalds have health insurance, they are informed by hospital administrator Rebecca Payne (Anne Heche) that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money himself, John persuades the hospital's compassionate cardiac surgeon, Dr. Raymond Turner (James Woods), to waive his lofty fee, but is still left with too much of a financial burden to bear. With no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint. John is soon a media hero, the focus of intense news coverage, even as police chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta) and hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) try to resolve the situation before it leads to bloodshed.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/29/2025
UPC:	0883929839582
Original Release:	2002
Rating:	PG-13
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Denzel Washington	Actor
Robert Duvall	Actor
James Woods	Actor
Anne Heche	Actor
Eddie Griffin	Actor
Kimberly Elise	Actor
Shawn Hatosy	Actor
Ray Liotta	Actor
Daniel E. Smith	Actor
Ethan Suplee	Actor
Kevin Connolly	Actor
Paul Johansson	Actor
Heather Wahlquist	Actor
Troy Beyer	Actor
Obba Babatunde	Actor
Troy Winbush	Actor
David Thornton	Actor
Laura Elena Harring	Actor
Larissa Laskin	Actor
Dina Waters	Actor
Martha Chaves	Actor
Jay Leno	Actor
Keram Malicki Sanchez	Actor
Larry King	Actor,Actor
Bill Maher	Actor
Gabriela Oltean	Actor
Ron Annabelle	Actor
Vanessa Branch	Actor
Stephanie Moore	Actor
James Finnerty	Actor
Michael Jaye	Actor
Yanna McIntosh	Actor
Linda Massad	Actor
Noam Jenkins	Actor
Allegra Fulton	Actor
Darrin Brown	Actor
Shera Danese	Actor
Kirsta Teague	Actor
Rick Sood	Actor
Scott Bloom	Actor
Carlos Diaz	Actor
Joseph Duer	Actor
Simon Sinn	Actor
Jeff Douglas	Actor
Keram Malicki-Sanchez	Actor
Philip Williams	Actor,Actor
Frank Cassavetes	Actor
Colin Evans	Actor
Angelo Tsarouchas	Actor
Marcia Johnson	Actor
Vijay Mehta	Actor
Andrew Schaff	Actor
Malcolm Nefsky	Actor
Gloria Allred	Actor
Arianna Huffington	Actor
Ted Demme	Actor
Nas	Actor
Claire Rankin	Actor
Phillip Craig	Actor
Gerry Quigley	Actor
Aaron Zigman	Composer

Technical Credits

James Kearns

Nick Cassavetes	Director
James Kearns	Screenwriter
Rick Avery	Stunts
Matthew Barry	Casting
Mark Burg	Producer
Tom Glass	Stunts
Nancy Green-Keyes	Casting
Avram Butch Kaplan	Executive Producer,Producer
Kaz Kobieleski	Special Effects
Oren Koules	Producer
Richard Saperstein	Executive Producer,Producer
John Stoneham Jr.	Stunts
Michael De Luca	Producer
David Lee	Sound/Sound Designer