Desperate Measures (1998)

Director:

Barbet Schroeder

Writer (WGA):

David Klass (written by)

Release Date:

30 January 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

His son needs a DNA donor to live. The clock is ticking. The only match is a vicious killer. Now all Frank Conner has to do is catch him.

Plot:

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son...

Plot Keywords:

Donation | Villain Played By Lead Actor | Son | Criminal | Paranoid

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Michael Keaton	...	Peter McCabe
Andy Garcia	...	Frank Conner
Brian Cox	...	Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Erik King	...	Nate Oliver
Efrain Figueroa	...	Vargas
Joseph Cross	...	Matthew Conner
Janel Moloney	...	Sarah Davis
Richard Riehle	...	Ed Fayne
Tracey Walter	...	Medical Inmate
Peter Weireter	...	SWAT Team Commander
Keith Diamond	...	Derrick Wilson
Steve Park	...	Dr. Gosha
Steven Schub	...	SWAT in Airduct
Neal Matarazzo	...	Cell Guard

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #34792) | Iceland:14 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Closed Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California, USA

Company:

Eaglepoint

Trivia:

The article "Inside the Mind of a Sociopath" that the Captain reads during the trip to the prison is written "by Michael Keaton".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Pete was on the computer towards the beginning of the movie you can clearly see that there is only one cord plugged into the computer. So that means that the mouse wasn't plugged in or the keyboard wasn't plugged in, when he was using both.

Quotes:

Peter McCabe: [after agreeing to transplant] These cigarettes are stale. You tell that cop and his dead kid I won't stand for stale cigarettes.

Movie Connections:

References History of the World: Part I (1981)

Soundtrack:

PROUD MARY

Very Entertaining, Michael Keaton puts in his greatest performance (AS PETER McCABE - PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER {IN THIS MOVIE KNOWN AS DESPERATE MEASURES}) since BATMAN!

IT'S TRUE! Michael Keaton was brilliant, and so was Andy Garcia who pursued and tried to protect him at the same time. This movie was kept real and was extremely intense all the way, but was in some ways predictable and in other ways not so predictable! One of the greatest, most dramatic and thoughtful Action movies ever made and it deserved better recognition from critics and the box-office!