Johns Hopkins University in popular culture

Instances and mentions of Johns Hopkins University in popular culture.

In non-fiction

• The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004), based on the true story of Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (an unusual team for the time), depicts their work as pioneers of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Johns Hopkins University Hospital is the focus of Hopkins, an ABC News' six-part series which takes an intimate look at the men and women who call the Johns Hopkins Hospital their home. Began June 26, 2008.[1]

In fiction

• In the Tom Clancy novels, Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy Ryan, is a doctor at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. In real life, Clancy created the Tom Clancy Professorship at Wilmer on April 8, 2005.

In film

• In John Waters' trash film Desperate Living (1977), the lesbian character Mole McHenry enters Johns Hopkins Hospital and forces a surgeon at knifepoint to give her a sex-change operation.
• In the movie Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Meg Ryan visits her brother, a professor, at his office in the George Peabody Library.
• In the movie Getting In (1994), a college graduate ends up sixth on the waiting list for Johns Hopkins University and attempts to "dissuade" six people in front from attending. However, along the way, he discovers that somebody else is attempting to do the same thing by murdering the other applicants.
• The film The Curve (1998) was filmed at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.
• In Head of State (2003), the unlikely Democratic presidential candidate Mays Gilliam (played by Chris Rock) rallies campus supporters from the steps of Shriver Hall, on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins, in this comedy that marked Rock's directorial debut and co-starred Bernie Mac.
• The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004) was filmed both on the Homewood campus and medical campus.
• The Nicole Kidman film The Invasion (2007) was partly filmed in a laboratory in Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus.[2][3]
• The campus scenery of Harvard University in The Social Network (2010) was filmed on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins.
• The movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) takes place at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where the world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson completed his residency and works.
• In the movie Annihilation (2018), Lena, portrayed by Natalie Portman, is a cellular biology professor at Johns Hopkins.

On television

• In the season two finale of Nip/Tuck (2003), Christian Troy and Sean McNamara visit Johns Hopkins to find out more about Ava Moore.
• On the HBO drama The Wire, Baltimore Police Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin looks into a retirement job as deputy director of campus security for JHU, an offer that is withdrawn when his "Hamsterdam" experiment of allowing the free trade of drugs in certain areas of his district is exposed.

References

1. Hopkins | Home Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
2. "The Hedgecock Laboratory - Article". Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
3. "Invasion Movie - Invasion Trailer - Nicole Kidman - Daniel Craig - Visiting Movie". Retrieved 2007-08-18.