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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jonathan Wells

Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes

Owen Wilson and Alan Ritchsonride a bicycle, carrying a cooler labeled
A life or death mission … Owen Wilson and Alan Ritchson in Runner. Photograph: Runner Productions/PA

Hollywood loves a ticking clock – especially when there’s a delivery involved. For decades, dangerous cargo has been entrusted to certain types of action hero: spies, soldiers, hitmen, Jason Statham.

Lately, however, Hollywood seems interested in a different kind of hero – not to mention a different kind of cargo. Forget your nuclear launch codes, stolen diamonds and mysterious briefcases, for human organs are the new MacGuffins du jour, and the medical professionals charged with getting them to the ICU have become unlikely action heroes.

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