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Extreme Measures
1996
· Movie
· 118 min
D
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
41–68
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 41, highest is Kinopoisk on 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Details
- Director
- Michael Apted
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy
- Based on
- a work by Michael Palmer
- Released
- 27 September 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $38.0M
- Box office
- $17.4M
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