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Desperate Measures
MEANRANK
51/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 19, highest is Kinopoisk on 67. Critics average 19, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Details
- Director
- Barbet Schroeder
- Writer
- David Klass
- Studio
- Mandalay Entertainment
- Released
- 30 January 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $13.8M
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