John.Q Archibald

In the windy city of Chicago the proud Archibald family has been living on the "slow lane". They find themselves in an economic trouble and they are in danger of losing their son, who has had a heart failure after a minor league baseball game. The Archibald family accelerated to the hospital where their son Mickey has a decreasing amount of blood pressure. John Archibald has a dilemma whether he should take his son to a heart transplant or whether he should just accept the fact that his son will soon die. John Q Archibald. A man so desperatley want to save his beloved son chooses that he should have the risk of taking his son to a heart transplant.

Dr.Turner the man who is in charge of the hospital gives John Archibald a $75,000 dollars bill in order to put Mickey on the doner's list. Because the Archibald family is poor they are not able to pay that amount of money. Therefore, John has to work hard and make lots of money or he should let Mickey die in peace.

Throughout the movie they show how a father like John Q Archibald would do so much work in order to pay that $75k bill. Bribes, Promotions you name it! John would do anything to save Mickey's life. The hospital is charging John cash because his lousy Health Care Insurance would not pay for a transplant. From 85 to 84 in 3 hours Mickey's blood pressure slowly drops, and everytime the numbers go down Mickey becomes more ill.

Desperatley John Q chooses the hard way and started taking matters to his own hands when he eventually kidnapped: Mr.Turner, a nurse, Security Guard and 5 patients waiting to be cured. The siren slowly gets louder and louder until a man with medals and other fellow cops members come out from a white and blue "Cop Mobile". What will John do now? he has no defenses except a gun. No tactics to overcome the police's mind. And no-one will help him get out of the hospital alive. John's life becomes more risky all he wants is for his son to get into the doner's list and get him a new heart. Should John Q surrender to the police or hold hostage untill he gets what he wants. John Q has another dilemma...