SOMETHING THE LORD MADE

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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 the 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 a dying baby, to two occupy very different places in society. Blalock is the wealthy white Head of Surgery at John 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.
• Cast: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Merritt Wever, Clayton LeBouef, Charles S. Dutton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cliff McMullen, Luray Cooper, Irene Ziegler, John Emmanuel, Harold J. Abell Sr., Michael E. Russell, Henri Edmonds, Zoe Buck, John Leslie Wolfe, David Bailey, Mackenzie Jo Pardi, Tel Monks, Bolton Marsh, Timothy J. Scanlin Jr., Jonathan Watkins, Jeffrey Coleman, Linda Williams, Wil Love, Brooke Gaigler, Patrick Brown, Kera Gaigler, Douglas Watson, Al Brown, Robert F. Chew, Elisabeth Noone, Doug Olear, Marty Lodge, Sean MacLaughlin, Dave Trovato, Rahaleh Nassri, Alan Sader, Nat Benchley, Antonio D. Charity, Sean Pratt, Matthew Russell, Brigid Cleary, Sheila Edmondson, Carlyncia S. Peck, Rick Burk, Tim Colmus, Eddie DePaola, Cantrell Harris, Allan Kulakow, Kirk Lambert, Jim Page, Joe Peck, Tyrone Requer, Kevin Tan, Michael Ahl, Tex Allen, James E. Ash, Briel Banks, Patricia Talmadge Berry, Ian Bonds, Chris Boykin, R. Emery Bright, Dava Casoni, Tray Chaney, Paul M. Clary, Robin Dorsey, Brian Dragonuk, Devorah Firestone, Pamela Fischer, Lynn-Jane Foreman, Dan Franko, Alan Gates, Duke Greenhill, Thomas M. Hagen, Justin Hinnant, Katherine Hoskins Mackey, Yolanda Jenkins, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Z.M. Nan Khan, Martin Luther King, Connie Lamothe, James Lewis, Robert Neal Marshall, Kerry Meushaw, Jim Nieb, Reina Poindexter, Jasmyn Proctor, Carolyn Rawleigh, Andrew Schneider, Thomas W. Stewart, Anastasia Summers, LeRoy Taylor, Tom Townsend, Towanda Underdue, Schuster Vance, Don Whatley, Malcolm X, Joseph Sargent, Peter Silverman, Robert Caswell
• Director: Joseph Sargent
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: HBO Films, Karinin Productions, HBO Video
• Media Format: Movie