Extraordinary Measures: Magnificent Results

The Movie Slut was afraid EM was just another weepy malady-of-the-month movie. How wrong she was.
What we have here are two men: a cantankerous, eccentric research scientist with great taste in old rock music, (Harrison Ford playing to type); a desperate, warm & fuzzy, dad, who knows his way around corporate mumbo-jumbo (Brendan Fraser owning the role); and two adorable tykes suffering from a rare, degenerative condition that will take their lives within a year.Talk about a race against time!
The odd couple — who make Oscar and Felix look like they met on match.com — must put their differences aside and join forces to find, if not a cure, then at least a treatment for Pompe's disease, a form of muscular dystrophy that will soon attack the children's little hearts. As if that were not difficult enough, they also have to contend with bottom-line obsessed drug companies with no interest in hearts unless they can sell a drug for them.
Based on a non-fiction book, the movie seesaws smoothly from the heart-wrenching family drama to the corporate tussles, and in the process opens eyes about how drugs are researched, tested and marketed.