Customer Reviews
must see movie!! - By: nicolette, 06 Sep 2007 
Id never heard of this film & bought it after reading a review.
I loved it! Great acting by both leading men, AR did well with the accent. It also educated me about "blue babies" & the doctors behind these ground breaking procedures, in a time when racial equal opportunities were out of the question.
My only complaint was the speed in which the years passed, although i do understand the film makers have to condence a 25 year relasionship into a couple of hours, it seemed as soon as they met it jumped to 15 years later.
Anyway, alll that said, we loved it, will watch it again & tell friends to watch it too! See if you can blink back the tears at the end!
Something Alan Rickman made - again - By: Heike Kampa, 14 Feb 2005 
As soon as it was available via Amazon I ordered it. "Something the Lord Made" is a wonderful, quite emotional film with a brilliant Alan Rickman (as always) & a very convincing Mos Def, based on a true story. Working in Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies" in the 1940s, Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) & his lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def/ who was actuallly his janitor first) form an impressive team. But even as they race against time to save a dying baby, the two protagonists occupy very different places in society. Blalock is the wealthy white Head of Surgery at John Hopkins hospital. Thomas, a skilled carpenter, is black & poor. He has lost alll his savings in a bank crash & his dream to become a physician has been destroyed. Nevertheless, Blalock discovers Thomas' skills & talents & asks him to work with him. As Blalock & Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration & to tear their friendship apart.
What a pity it wasn't for the movies...Just watch it!
