| Something the Lord Made |  | Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  165 reviews
Sales Rank: 980
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 92461
ISBN: 078312404X
UPC: 026359246128
EAN: 9780783124049
ASIN: B00067BCBI
Theatrical Release Date: May 30, 2004
Release Date: January 25, 2005
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| • | (Drama) 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) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive team. As Bl |
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dvd/ something the lord made March 11, 2010
linda M (indiana)
i had seen this movie on a movie station several times and my husband and i always enjoyed it. the price was right on amazon.com so i decided to purchase the dvd, so we can watch it anytime we like.
 Could do without the swearing March 7, 2010
C. Aguilar
Watched this movie, called "Something the LORD Made". I would have enjoyed watching this inspired movie with my daughter WITHOUT the doctor swearing! I wish it was rated, I prob. wouldn't have bought this. Will be giving this DVD away to someone who doesn't mind curse words in a movie.
Alan Rickman February 17, 2010
Dawnelle (Buffalo, NY USA)
I was very impressed by this movie. ALan Rickman made a believable Southern gentleman and Mos Def was good in his role as well. I had no idea how the medical field devloped ways of treating heart disease and this film showed me without being a boring documentary. I was a little dishearted to see what they did to the dogs but mores were different back then and they couldn't experiment on humans.
Something the Lord Made February 13, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
This movie tells the story of the extraordinary 34-year partnership which begins in Depression Era Nashville in 1930, when Blalock hires Thomas as an assistant in his Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him merely to perform janitorial work. But Thomas' remarkable manual dexterity and scientific acumen shatter Blalock's expectations, and Thomas rapidly becomes indispensable as a research partner to Blalock in his first daring forays into heart surgery. The film traces the groundbreaking work the two men undertake when they move in 1941 from Vanderbilt to Johns Hopkins, an institution where the only black employees are janitors and where Thomas must enter by the back door. Together, they boldly attack the devastating heart problem of Tetralogy of Fallot, also known as Blue Baby Syndrome, and in so doing they open the field of heart surgery. The movie dramatizes their race to save dying Blue Babies against the background of a Jim Crow (Racial Segregation) America, illuminating the nuanced and complex relationship the two sustain. Thomas earns Blalock's unalloyed respect, with Blalock praising the results of Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made", and insisting that Thomas coach him through the first Blue Baby surgery over the protests of Hopkins administrators. This is a compelling, touching movie, with wonderful performances all around. Absolutely magnificent.
Great !!!! February 7, 2010
S. Jackson (Brooklyn, NY)
I SAW THIS MOVIE ON PBS YEARS AGO AND DECIDED TO PURCHASE THE DVD FOR MY COLLECTION.
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