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| MC & TMN present the premiere of the HBO film Something The Lord Made |
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on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 03:24 PM |
Movie Central (Western Canada) and The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) present the exclusive Canadian premiere of the HBO Film Something The Lord Made on Sunday, May 30 at 8 p.m. MT / 9 p.m. ET (day-and-date with HBO).
From the Emmy®-winning team behind Miss Evers’ Boys, A Lesson Before Dying and A Mother’s Courage, this film tells the inspiring, little-known story of an unlikely collaboration that saved countless lives and changed the course of medical history. Something The Lord Made is the story of two men – an ambitious white surgeon and a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician – who defied the racial strictures of the Jim Crow south and together pioneered the field of heart surgery.
Alan Rickman and Mos Def
© 2004 Home Box Office.
All rights reserved.
Directed by multiple Emmy®-winner Joseph Sargent (HBO’s A Lesson Before Dying and Miss Evers’ Boys), the film dramatizes the groundbreaking accomplishment of Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1944. It stars Alan Rickman (Love Actually, Harry Potter films), Mos Def (Monster’s Ball, The Italian Job), Kyra Sedgwick (Door to Door, Secondhand Lions), Gabrielle Union (Bring It On, Deliver Us from Eva), with Charles S. Dutton (Gothika, Emmy®-winner for directing HBO’s The Corner) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Bed of Roses, Fried Green Tomatoes).
Something The Lord Made is a compelling story of men who defy the rules and start a medical revolution. Their patients are known as “blue babies” – infants suffering from a congenital heart defect that slowly suffocates them, turning them blue. Alfred Blalock (Rickman) and Vivien Thomas (Def) make a brilliant team. But even while they race against time to save one particular baby, the two occupy different places in society. Blalock is the white, wealthy head of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thomas is black and poor, a skilled carpenter whose dream of going to college and becoming a doctor was ruined by the Depression, although he was naturally gifted with the intuition and dexterity of a great surgeon. As they are saving lives and inventing a whole new field of medicine, social pressures threaten to tear them apart. Ultimately, however, Thomas finds his dreams coming true in unexpected ways.
The executive producers are Emmy®-winner Robert W. Cort (Mr. Holland’s Opus, the Emmy®-winning TV movie A Mother’s Courage: The Mary Thomas Story) and his partners David Madden and Eric Hetzel; the writers are Peter Silverman and Todd Philips; and the producers are Michael Drake and Julian Krainin. The consultants on the film are Andrea Kalin, Dr. Koco Eaton and Dr. J. Alex Haller, Jr. Keri Putnam is the HBO executive in charge of production.
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