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Production Year: 1998 - Drama - Director: Barbet Schroeder - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Peter Weireter, Michael Shamus Wiles, Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox, Scott Colomby, Tracey Walter, Steve Park, Randy Thompson, Steven Schub, Joseph Cross, Keith Diamond, Christine Ashe, Robert Baier, Dennis Cockrum, Joe Drago, Donna M. Duffy, Efrain Figueroa, Cliff Fleming, David Flick, Jack Gill, Craig Hosking, Norm Howell, Billy Kane, Donna Keegan, Tim Kelleher, Josh Kemble, Erik King, Janel Maloney, Neal Matarazzo, Howard Meehan, John Meier, Charles Noland, Darren Pearce, Richard Riehle, Troy Robinson, Danny Rogers, John Rottger, Eric Tignini, Dirk Vahle, Scott Waugh more

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Widowed police officer Frank Conner (Andy Garcia) has a cancer-stricken nine-year-old son, Matthew (Joseph Cross), whose only hope for survival is a bone-marrow transplant, but the...
more...only matching donor is Pete McCabe (Michael Keaton), a vicious, psychotic killer being held in a maximum-security prison. McCabe at first denies Conner's request for help but then agrees, devising an elaborate plan to use the medical procedure as an opportunity to escape. McCabe breaks loose before the transfusion can occur, and Conner is forced to become both his tracker and his ally, wanting to bring the serial killer back into custody but determined--for the sake of his son--to keep McCabe alive.
Keaton is chilling as the vicious, brilliant convict, while Garcia turns in a heartfelt performance as a devoted father caught in the middle of a bad situation getting worse. With DESPERATE MEASURES, director Barbet Schroeder (REVERSAL OF FORTUNE), renowned for his knack of combining urgent family drama with white-knuckle suspense, adds another crowd-pleasing, thought-provoking film to his list of successes.





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Desperate Measures is a very good film that didn't do as well at the Box Office as I feel it deserved to. It has an original plot and some good action so is makes good entertainment. The plot involves Andy Garcias character Frank Connor trying to find a compatible bone marrow donor for his son. The problem is the only match is the very evil murderer Peter McCabe played by Michael Keaton. He makes a miraculous escape and runs round the hospital ... Read review

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