Desperate Measures
“Desperate times call for. . .”
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.
Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Studio
Mandalay Entertainment
Language
en
Status
Released
How Desperate Measures performed
Budget
$50.0M
Worldwide Gross
$13.8M
Gross Profit
−$36.2M
Return
0.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Peter McCabe
Michael Keaton
Peter McCabe
Frank Conner
Andy Garcia
Frank Conner
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Brian Cox
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Marcia Gay Harden
Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Nate Oliver
Erik King
Nate Oliver
Vargas
Efrain Figueroa
Vargas
Matthew Conner
Joseph Cross
Matthew Conner
Sarah Davis
Janel Moloney
Sarah Davis
Ed Fayne
Richard Riehle
Ed Fayne
Medical Inmate
Tracey Walter
Medical Inmate
Derrick Wilson
Keith Diamond
Derrick Wilson
SWAT Team Commander
Peter Weireter
SWAT Team Commander
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