I caught this film on TV, but did not have the chance to watch the end. I only saw up to the point where Hugh Grant gets fired from the hospital, after the cocaine was found in his appartment. Could someone please describe what happens after this point?
Thanks.
The more I learn, the less I understand
Are you kidding? You missed half the movie then! I can't even begin to describe what happened next; it's way too much and too pivotal to just put into words anyway. You have to watch it yourself. Try renting it.
'All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing no song' - Louis Armstrong
OK. I saw it on TV to. I'll try and remember.
He went to see this man that lives on the streets because he had recieved a tip from someone about moles. Can't remember where he got that. The guy directs him to this man who is a 'mole' who takes him way underground to this colony of people. The people are suspicious but then eventually open up and show him a mortally wounded man whos back has been fiddled with. Grant insists on taking him up to the hospital. However, before they get there, a big 'tough' guy with a gun and a cop stop them in the subway. The cop meets a gastly end when his foot is caught in the tracks and a train comes and the wounded man is killed when Grant uses him as a shield against 'tough' guy's gunfire. Grant gets away but is shot anyway. He goes to his friend (the girl nurse) and she starts to take care of his wounds but then he finds out that she works for the people that are fiddling with people's spines and when he confronts her, her brother knocks him over the head with a bat.
He wakes up in hospital and is told by the mad minded doctor that he is paralysed from the neck down cos his spinal cord's cut. The doctor asks what he would do to get the use of his legs bakc and Grant says anything. While Grant's lying in bed a fly lands on his arm and his reflex action shows him that he isn't paralysed. The girl nurse comes in and tells him it's all a lie. She helps him up to help him escape and he makes a run for it.
However, he is noticed missing before he can exit the building and big 'tough' guy with the guns goes after him and they fight in the lift. Grant bursts out of the lift in the lobby carying 'tough' man's gun and him and the doctor talk about why he's doing this. The doctor explains that he needs human subjects to work out how to cure paralysed people. When he finishes his speech, Grant is jumped apon by the 'tough' guy who was lying unconcious in the lift. In the struggle, the evil doctor is shot with the gun and he dies.
End with Grant walking into his hospital or college holding the dead doctors notes that the wife gave him.
THERE! Can't say I'm not nice to you.
Curtesy of Samundsasha in the Scottish Borders, UK
Hey, after a long time I checked for possible answers (without really hoping) and found yours.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME!
The more I learn, the less I understand
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Hi,
I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but Samund's summary of the end, from what i remember, is pretty good, but i wanted to add something. The scene when Hackman's evil-doctor character asks Grant what he would do to get the use of his legs back, and Grant says 'anything', that is a very pivotal scene of the movie. I remember Hackman saying someting like, i want you to think very carefully about your answer' or something like that, to Grant. ....((SPOILERS)).....Hackman's response explains the reason he's been finding people (the homeless who were living underground) to work out how to repair/cure paralyzed people. the problem is, of course (and Grant points this out near the end) is that Hackman has been 'experimenting' on these people against their will, which is the major crime involved, here.
It was a very good movie with a really good moral/ethical message.
The Ethical element of many of his actions & the actions of those around him R what set this movie apart 4 me. The repercussions of action or inaction R well werked out.
The tough one 4 me was the wife @ the end, giving him the data. 2 use the data or not 2 use it. That was tough.
Other than the fight in the lift, I did not think there were any huge impossiblities in the whole movie. & that's rare 4 me.
Good movie
I worked fer 5 years in a row - when I was in the Joint
Use the data of course.
What Myrick did was wrong but what's done is done and it'd be a waste to throw away such valuable medical research.
Ad Astra Per Alia Porci!
I loved the comback that Lathan gives to Myrick's "saving the world" speech, it's just so good, this is probably one of the best Hugh Grant's performances.
Neon heart day-glow eyes, a city lit by fireflies.
Hugh Grant should make more dramatic films. He is a superb actor. I enjoy him in his light hearted roles, but it was great to see him in a dramatic role for a change.
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