Stars: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox, Scott Colomby, Tracey Walter, Steve Park, Randy Thompson, Steven Schub, Joseph Cross, Keith Diamond, 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, Peter Weireter, Michael Shamus Wiles

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Summary: San Franciscan Police Officer, Frank Connor, has to go to desperate measures to find a suitable bone marrow donor for his critically ill son. The perfect match is a homicidal sociopath serving a life sentence who escapes from prison while being transferred to hospital, leaving dead and wounded. The race is on to recapture him and he has to be alive...

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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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer, Featurette
Year:	1998
Release Date:	October 30, 2000
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9053
Keywords:	General, Desperate, Drama, Measures
Genre:	Drama