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Family film guide: 'Extraordinary Measures'
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:
'Extraordinary Measures'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Teens and up.

What you should know: Inspired by a real family, this is the story of a race against time to develop a treatment for a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Pompe disease. Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell star.

Language: About a dozen mild expletives plus a couple of uses of profanity.

Sexual situations and nudity: A married couple canoodling on a couch are interrupted by the early morning appearance of a nurse.

Violence/scary situations: A disease that has no treatment or cure threatens to claim two of the three children from the family that is the film's focus. Another family shares word, by phone, that a child has died.

Drug or alcohol use: A scene is set in a bar and adults mainly drink beer.

Barbara Vancheri can be reached a bvancheri@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1632.
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First published on January 22, 2010 at 12:00 am