Pajiba

I am second to no man in my love for Keri Russell, she always makes my 5 Freebies list, but this? Don't think so. Unless it turns out it's a black comedy. The whole kids-with-rare-fatal-genetic-disorders genre is just begging for the Coen brothers.

I'm gonna file this one under "ho-hum".

I don’t know what’s worst, those brat kids or being in a movie with Brendan Fraser.

Maybe the should have stopped at one child when they discovered they spawned rare genetic disorders. Where's Eugenics Girl when you need her?

Yeah, so I have a 2 year old nephew who is undergoing treatment for a rare genetic disorder that could kill him (if the chemo etc doesn't) and I have to say his parents are the bravest people I have ever known. There is nothing on this earth they wouldn't give or do to save the baby.
So I won't be seeing this, but I won't be mocking it either. A bit too close to the bone.

Um...I work in a research lab. That's not how research is done. The trailer seems to imply that a cure to anything can be found if you throw enough money at it and rush the clinical trials. Sorry, doesn't work that way.

I like how the wife is so clueless that she thinks "500" OR "a thousand" is a reasonable sum to conduct large scale research. I also like how the dad implies that if the cure comes too late to save HIS kids, it's worthless.

On the bright side, Harrison's aging well. I'd hit that.

Dammit! I want Harrison Ford to make a comedy movie!

"I do really think that once you discover, as parents, that your offspring have a high probability of carrying a life threatening genetic disorder, it's irresponsible to continue to procreate."

I agree in theory, but it is a toughie in practice. People want some babies. My Ex has an older sister with multiple developmental delays and social retardation (no specific syndrome, wasn't diagnosed until school age) and a brother with Downs. The Ex was the youngest. Here is the kicker: His father is a world renown expert in genetics who has done groundbreaking work with RNA. How is that for cruel irony? The famous geneticist has 2 kids with genetic disorders, and the jury is still out on the Ex. So yeah, we didn't have kids.

FWIW, my sick nephew has a perfectly healthy 5 year old brother, and Hurler's Syndrome is so very rare that it was not even on the radar for the parents.

I'm somewhat dyslexic this morning; I could have sworn the title said Woo-hoo! I just got head... and all I could think of was "Good for you, Dustin."

No thanks on the movie. It does sound like a grumpier Lorenzo's Oil.

Will he suck off a goat? *spit take*
Now is it my imagination, or at around the 1:35 mark does Harrison Ford somehow magically transform into Richard Gere?

This is one I could watch with me ma and not be too terribly humiliated.

Jiffyzen:

The famous (in his field) geneticist became a raging alcoholic who lost his family over his drinking. He now has been sober for nearly 2 decades and is retired at 75. He takes care of both of the 'kids' (38 and 40 respectively) who still live in his city, and has applied his particular mad-scientist genius to seeing the humor in it all. It was either that or kill himself. He also pretty much supports his ex wife (my ex MIL) who ran away to be a compulsive QVC channel shopper and hoarder in a small sea side town as soon as the kids were situated in appropriate adult group homes. She could NOT take it any more. She burned through her retirement and savings and lives in a perpetual state of "what happens next?" Last I heard she was staying with him. I think they will come full circle in the end.
Really, the trauma of having these children broke like a tsunami over these people, and battered them to the core. 40 years later and it is just now healing. They are amazingly strong.
The Ex is deeply emotionally scarred from all of it, and if I weren't still wee bit bitter over the whole fucked up marriage thing I would pity him more.
(letitgoletitgoletitgo)

So Harrison Ford plays the grumpy, misanthropic doctor-type who only realises at the end of the story that Brendan Fraser's character was dead all along?!