Rent Something the Lord Made (2004)
4.1 of 5 from 56 ratings
1h 50min
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- Synopsis:
"Something the Lord Made" tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Yasiin Bey) form an impressive team. But even as they race against time to save dying baby, the two occupy very different places in society. Blalock is the wealthy white Head of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Thomas is black and poor, a skilled carpenter. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart. - Actors:
- Alan Rickman, Yasiin Bey, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef, Charles S. Dutton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cliff McMullen, Luray Cooper, Irene Ziegler, John Emmanuel, Harold J. Abell Sr., Michael E. Russell, Henri Edmonds, Cora Shay Buck, Zoe Buck, John Leslie Wolfe, David Bailey, Matthew Welborn
- Directors:
- Joseph Sargent
- Producers:
- Mike Drake, Julian Krainin
- Writers:
- Peter Silverman, Robert Caswell
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Drama
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Informative and sad - Something the Lord Made review by EA
This was well-acted and emotionally stirring, a little slow-moving at times. It told a sad and familiar story. An African-American man Vivien Thomas who is barred from practising medicine because of racism becomes an assistant to the famed Dr Blalock. Vivien is instrumental in creating techniques which will save babies from blue baby syndrome. However, Dr Blalock while mentoring Vivien, is not a character with integrity. He takes the limelight for the medical breakthrough. Even though he appears to be an upright person, he too is benefitting from Vivien's efforts and labour.
Based on a true story.
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