Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'Extreme Measures'

Posted at 12:00 PM Oct 24, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming. And while yesterday saw creepy Huck Finn-esque AIDS allegory The Cure get reimagined as a sanctimonious character study (hey, maybe it wasn't that far off), today we turn our remotes to a forgettably mediocre Hugh Grant/Gene Hackman thriller (what? that pairing didn't smell of dramatic success?).

Today's entry is:

Extreme Measures
The Actual Story: In the typically histrionic fashion of mid-'90s paranoid thrillers, all sorts of cautionary commentary abounds as Gene Hackman recruits a naive doctor to unwittingly assist him in experiments that just so happen to involve sacrificing human lives.
Cable-Info Bar Synopsis: "An ER Physician Seeks A Doctor Who Experiments On People."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: This description reads less like a film synopsis than a perverted want ad in a medical journal left as a Halloween prank.

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