Something The Lord Made DVD

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Something The Lord Made

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Release Date: 02 January 2006

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Certificate:	15

Cast List:	Mos Def, Mary Stuart Masterson, Alan Rickman, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Charles Dutton

Director:	Joseph Sargent, Donald M. Morgan

Special Features:	Audio commentary with director Joseph Sargent, writer Peter Silverman and execut, Featurette.

Region:	Region 2

Aspect Ratio:	Aspect Ratio 1.78:1

Number of Disks:	1

Main Language:	English, German

Subtitle Languages:	Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, English for the hearing impaired, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, German for the hearing impaired

Description

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, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def, The Italian Job) 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.