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Desperate Measures| Director: | Barbet Schroeder | | Writer: | David Klass | | Director of Photography: | Luciano Tovoli | | Editor: | Lee Percy | | Music: | Trevor Jones | | Production Designer: | Geoffrey Kirkland | | Producers: | Barbet Schroeder, Susan Hoffman, Gary Foster and Lee Rich | | Tri-Star Pictures; R; 105 minutes | | Release: | 1/98 | | Cast: | Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden and Joseph Cross |
The premise of this thriller reads like an after-school special: A father (Garcia) fights to get his leukemia-stricken son (Cross) a bone marrow transplant. The catch is that the only matching donor is a convicted killer (Keaton). The convict masterminds a McGyver-esque escape plan that leads to lots of hospital explosions, high-speed chases and shootouts. Garcia flexes plenty of paternal muscle and Keaton is lean and mean, but their face-off proves anti-climactic.
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