Talkie Zoo: EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES

A very inspiring movie, if ever there was one. Extraordinary Measures (2010; PG) follows the parents of two children afflicted with Pompe Syndrom, a degenerative genetic disease. Children with this disease usually only live to about age 9. Very sad indeed.

Brendon Frasier plays the father, who goes through any and all efforts to find a medical researcher who is working on a cure for this terrible disease. Based on the true events in the lives of John and Aileen Crowley, this movie follows the struggles and grief associated with having not one but two children with this disease.

John, who graduated Harvard and was a business executive with a promising future, quits his job to help get capital for a scientist who may be on the road to the cure the children need. Going up against all odds, reducing his income in favor of fighting for a cure, buying cheap car insurance to help reduce spending, and taking off at a moment's notice to seek out professionals and laboratories, John fights this fight seemingly alone. Even doctors advice him and his wife to just be with and enjoy the children while they still have them.

Harrison Ford plays the role of the scientist Dr. Stonehill, who is on the way to a cure, but who lacks the proper funding to continue the research until the drug is discovered and manufactured.