Trailer courtesy of CBS Films
Most anybody who hears John Crowley’s story will call him a hero.
It’s a logical label for a man who led a successful quest to develop a treatment that stopped the disease killing two of his young children.
The Crowley family’s incredible story has been chronicled in the media, a book and now a major Hollywood feature film. “Extraordinary Measures” will be released Jan. 22 with an A-list cast that includes Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell.
But even when Crowley pauses to look back at the experience, he balks at the word “hero.”
“As a business person, I did what I was asked to do, and as a dad I did what I had to do. That certainly doesn’t make you a hero,” he says. “The kids and Aileen are the heroes.”
