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Bookmark this pageDesperate Measures (1998)
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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From Time Out Film Guide
Frank Connor, a lone parent cop, competes with the police force on a manhunt for escaped con McCabe, and finds himself in a no man's land between hunter and prey. The cops want the fugitive dead, and Frank wants his bone marrow to save his little boy. The title describes the film's strategy of victimising the child, a leukaemia patient whose pre-op vulnerability is exploited first to enable McCabe's escape, and then later as he becomes a hostage to the latter's fortunes. Keaton plays the con like Hannibal Lecter: a multiple murderer who can outwit his captors, unblinking, droll and occasionally vicious. Garcia is a rather dull embodiment of earnest persistence, and Harden flits in and out in an under-explored role as the boy's surgeon.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Barbara Schroeder, Susan Hoffman, Gary Foster, Lee Rich
Cast: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Efrain Figueroa full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 100 mins
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