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A 2010 movie [[Based on a True Story]] and the book "''The Cure"'' about John Crowley, whose dedication to saving his two children from a genetic disease named Pompe results in him becoming a driving force in the development of an enzyme therapy. Brendan Fraser plays John, Keri Russell plays his wife Aileen and [[Harrison Ford]] is Dr. Robert Stonehill, the man whose revolutionary medical theories are the key to everything.
 
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=== This film uses the following tropes: ===
* [[As You Know]]: Practically every other line is this, necessitated somewhat by the amount of medical exposition that has to be dumped without the luxury of an audience viewpoint character who facilitates such explanations.
* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Subverted in the beginning of the movie. Megan was sad that her Dad hadn't showed up for bowling, but he made it for the cake. In any other movie he might have arrived at the ''wrong'' bowling alley, this was only to show that he was busy but still very mindful of them. Throughout the entire movie he is running himself ragged trying to get everything down.