Extreme Measures (1996)

Storyline

Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent surgeon Dr Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), but Luthan soon finds himself under in danger from people who want the hospital’s secret to remain undiscovered. Extreme Measures, the 1996 Michael Apted hospital doctor thriller (“Not all surgery is intended to cure.”; “Don’t move a muscle.”; “Based on the book by Michael Palmer”) starring Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, and David Cronenberg (in a small role)