John Q

Give a father no options and you leave him no choice.

A tense hostage drama centered on a desperate father's love for his dying son, pitting parental devotion against systemic indifference.

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.