John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington), who is not rich, is a hard-working worker in a factory. In order to support their families, the two couples became increasingly indifferent, causing the marriage to be on the verge of breaking down. To add insult to injury, misfortune befell their 9-year-old son Michael. One day, Michael suddenly fainted on the baseball field. When John Q sent his son to the hospital, he learned that his son had a serious congenital heart disease and needed a heart transplant to save his life. The high cost of the operation far exceeded his medical insurance coverage. After several unsuccessful communications with John Q, the hospital director decided to remove them from the waiting list for transplant. This move angered John Q, his father. He angrily stormed into the hospital's emergency room with a gun, kidnapped innocent medical staff and patients as hostages, and demanded that the hospital operate on his son immediately. This human battle challenging morality and law is not as simple as imagined...
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