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NUMBERS
Box Office: $71,026,631
VHS Rentals: $21,440,000
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CONSENSUS
Washington's performance rises above the material, but John Q pounds the audience over the head with its message.
CAST & CREW
Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche
Directed by Nick Cassavetes
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SYNOPSIS
John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey (Daniel E. Smith) and his waitress wife (Kimberly Elise). Mikey collapses at a Little League game and is rushed to a hospital. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, violence, language, and intense thematic elements
RUNTIME
1 hour, 52 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 15, 2002
Video: Jul 16, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
New Line Cinema
GENRE
Dramas, Social Issues, Hostages, Family Crises
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official John Q Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "The ending is a cop-out. What happens to John Q? I don't have an I Am Sam clue."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "With the bump and sputter of an Indie, the big names and strong acting pull the viewer through this propaganda piece by the heart.
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-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"An edgy, poignant drama that has its heart in the right place."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"The criticism never rises above easy, cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish, anger and frustration."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"...stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"A working class "us vs. them" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The mushy finale turns John Q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker."
-- Paul Clinton, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The issues are presented in such a lousy way, complete with some of the year’s (unintentionally) funniest moments, that it’s impossible to care."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Has something to say... but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"To honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to American workers, a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"It's tough being a black man in America, especially when the Man has taken away your car, your work-hours and denied you health insurance."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
""What John does is heroic, but we don't condone it," one of the film's stars recently said, a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture's moral schizophrenia."
-- Steven D. Greydanus, DECENT FILMS GUIDE
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"...feels as if (there's) a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good, hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"It looks much more like a cartoon in the end than The Simpsons ever has."
-- Kevin John Bozelka, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"So earnest and well-meaning, and so stocked with talent, that you almost forget the sheer, ponderous awfulness of its script."
-- Vera H-C Chan, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"The actors and technicians help to elevate [John Q] above its source material."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...worth at least one trip to the theater -- or later, to the video store -- to catch."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"Denzel Washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"It puts Washington, as honest working man John Q. Archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"After Collateral Damage, you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned. But no."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER
"Each scene drags, underscoring the obvious, and sentiment is slathered on top."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"The lousy John Q all but spits out Denzel Washington's fine performance in the title role."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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ROTTEN 13%
Avg. Rating: 4.5/10 |
"Philosophically, intellectually and logistically a mess."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"A poorly scripted, preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent, believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony, formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"It is so earnest, so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse, it's almost funny."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Before long, the film starts playing like General Hospital crossed with a Saturday Night Live spoof of Dog Day Afternoon."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Cassavetes thinks he's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause, but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill, didactic cartoon."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert, John Q. is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"It's a powerful though flawed movie, guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming Washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"It reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
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"A real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office, emergency room, hospital bed or insurance company office."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "John Q" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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