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

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten17%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 12,145
Rating: C -- "Desperate Measures" is a drawn-out, and purely disposable, suspense thriller. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
May 19, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- A preposterous yet entertaining thriller with Michael Keaton stretching admirably as a Hannibal Lecter-style killer.
Fantastica Daily
Oct 6, 2005
Rating: 1/4 -- A squandered opportunity to explore important issues through popular moviemaking. Full Review
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 26, 2002
Rating: 1/5 -- A waste of time.
Juicy Cerebellum
May 30, 2003
Rating: 1/5 -- Keaton and Garcia have never been any more desperate than in this silly film.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
Aug 22, 2002
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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Keaton gives a chilling performance....Garcia is surprisingly convincing....DESPERATE MEASURES' script is intelligently written...
Box Office
Apr 1, 1998

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.

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  • UPC: 014381860726
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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