"John Q"

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This paper tells the story from the film, in which a man who is desperate for financial resources to save the life of his sick son, takes patients of an ER hostage in return for his son's surgery. It applies the Orem Model to this situation and analyzes the sociology of the family structure and dynamics within the movie.

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"The movie John Q is meant to entertain us, as are all such blockbuster movies with mega-stars. However, simply because a movie has good acting and high production values does not mean that it cannot also teach us important things about human nature. This movie in fact allows us to understand some of the important dynamics of family life. Of course, few families face the kinds of severe stresses that this family does. However, the film's director, Nick Cassavetes, allows us to see that while the degree of stress that the members of this family experience, and the ways in which they react to it, are substantially greater than what most American families have to face, the patterns of dealing with stress that we see in this family are not in fact qualitatively different from those that occur in other families."

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