Recorded/Estimated Wordwide Gross

$81.44 / $98.78

US Actual: $71.03 / 71.9%

Intl Est.: $27.75 / 28.1%

Recorded/Estimated Admissions Wordwide

13.2M / 13.6M

US Actual: 11.46 / 84.0%

Intl. Est: 2.18 / 16.0%

Worldwide Release History

302 Days / 3,856 Theaters*

Average Gross/Week: 1,424,703

First Released: 02/16/02 Last Seen: 12/15/02

* as many as, tracking

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Synopsis: Concerns a little boy who collapses on the field during a little league game and is rushed to a hospital, where it is determined he needs a new heart. When the hospital dismisses him from its donor waiting list because he doesn't have health insurance, the boy's distraught father takes the hospital's emergency room hostage. John, the father, keeps the police at bay long enough to find the donor for his son, in the meantime becoming a local hero for battling the bureaucratic administration.

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Other Reviews:

• Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) [1.5/4]
• Cinescape
• E! Online
• Grading The Movies [B-]
• New York Post (Jonathan Foreman) [2/4]
• Philadelphia City Paper (Cindy Fuchs)
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
• Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)
• Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
• The Hollywood Reporter
• The New York Times
• USA TODAY
• Washington Post (Michael O'Sullivan)