Desperate Measures Movie Review 1998

Police officer Frank Connor (Garcia) desperately searches for a bone marrow donor for his dying son. Turns out the perfect match is vicious murderer and prison inmate Pete McCabe (Keaton). McCabe seizes the opportunity to unleash an elaborate and violent prison escape in a San Francisco hospital. Keaton, as a poor man's Hannibal Lecter, offers this movie's only entertainment. If not for the dying child to propel its already ludicrious story along, it would be a great source for slapstick comedy. Film was held back for several months before its final release and you'll find out why the studio wanted to hide this one.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Psycho-Thriller, Hospitals & Medicine, San Francisco, Fugitives, Psychotics/Sociopaths, Great Escapes, Dads, Death Row

Screenplay

Henry Bean, Neal Jimenez, David Klass

Cast

Andy Garcia, Michael Keaton, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox, Efrain Figueroa, Joseph Cross, Richard Riehle

Cinematography

Luciano Tovoli

Director

Barbet Schroeder

Music

Trevor Jones

Other

Lee Percy, Sandy Getzler

Producer

Barbet Schroeder, Lee Rich, Gary Foster, Mandalay Entertainment, TriStar Pictures