Desperate Measures R
Desperate times call for. . .
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 20, 2013
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Keaton & Andy Garcia | |
Performer: | Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox, Joseph Cross, Erik King, Efrain Figueroa, Richard Riehle & Tracey Walter | |
Directed by | Barbet Schroeder | |
Edited by | Lee Percy | |
Screenwriting by | David Klass | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Cinematography by | Luciano Tovoli | |
Produced by | Gary Foster, Susan Hoffman, Lee Rich & Barbet Schroeder | |
Executive Production by | Jeffrey Chernov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C --
"Desperate Measures" is a drawn-out, and purely disposable, suspense thriller.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 3/5 --
A preposterous yet entertaining thriller with Michael Keaton stretching admirably as a Hannibal Lecter-style killer.
Fantastica Daily
Rating: 1/4 --
A squandered opportunity to explore important issues through popular moviemaking.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 1/5 --
A waste of time.
Juicy Cerebellum
Rating: 1/5 --
Keaton and Garcia have never been any more desperate than in this silly film.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
Rating: 2/4 --
The movie would rather jolly along an action audience than play fair with its material, and so we're treated to the standard obligatory bankrupt action dreck: kinetic energy on autopilot.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...Keaton gives a chilling performance....Garcia is surprisingly convincing....DESPERATE MEASURES' script is intelligently written...
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Product Description:
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 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.
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.
Keywords:
Action
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Rivalry
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Psychos
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Killer
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On-The-Run
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Illness
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Cops
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Escape
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Parenthood
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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- UPC: 014381860726
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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