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Something the Lord Made is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Sargent released in USA on 30 may 2004 with Mos Def
Something the Lord Made (2004)
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Add to a movie listSomething the Lord Made is a 2004 film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery. Based on the National Magazine Award-winning Washingtonian magazine article "Like Something the Lord Made" by Katie McCabe, the film was directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell.
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Something the Lord Made tells the story of the 34-year partnership that begins in Depression Era Nashville in 1930 when Blalock (Alan Rickman) hires Thomas (Mos Def) as an assistant in his Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him to perform janitorial work. But Thomas' remarkable manual dexterity and intellectual acumen confound Blalock's expectations, and Thomas rapidly becomes indispensable as a research partner to Blalock in his forays into heart surgery.Actors
Mos Def
(Vivien Thomas)
Alan Rickman
(Dr. Alfred Blalock)
Kyra Sedgwick
(Mary Blalock)
Gabrielle Union
(Clara Thomas)
Mary Stuart Masterson
(Dr. Helen Taussig)
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