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((more citations needed|date=February 2015))
((Infobox film
| name           = Desperate Measures
| image          = Desperate measures.jpg

| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Barbet Schroeder]]
| producer       = Gary Foster <br />Barbet Schroeder <br />Lee Rich <br />Susan Hoffman
| writer         = [[David Klass]]
| based_on       = ((Based on|''Desperate Measures''|[[David Klass]]))
| narrator       =
| starring       = ((Plainlist|
* [[Michael Keaton]]
* [[Andy García]]
* [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]]
* [[Marcia Gay Harden]]
))
| music          = [[Trevor Jones (composer)|Trevor Jones]]
| cinematography = [[Luciano Tovoli]]
| editing        = Lee Percy
| studio         = ((Plainlist|
* [[TriStar Pictures]]
* [[Mandalay Entertainment]]
))
| distributor    = [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]
| released       = ((Film date|1998|01|30))
| runtime        = 100 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = [[English language|English]]
| budget         = $50 million
| gross          = $13.8 million
))
'''''Desperate Measures''''' is a 1998 American [[action thriller film]] starring [[Michael Keaton]], [[Andy García]], [[Marcia Gay Harden]] and [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]], directed by [[Barbet Schroeder]].  It was filmed in both the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and [[downtown Pittsburgh]] with such landmarks as the [[BNY Mellon Center (Pittsburgh)|BNY Mellon Center]], the [[Allegheny County Courthouse]]<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.pghfilm.org/show_films.jsp?restrictids=Film_Name&restrictvalues=Desperate+Measures|title=Screening Room|access-date=2011-11-21|archive-date=2012-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422034155/http://www.pghfilm.org/show_films.jsp?restrictids=Film_Name&restrictvalues=Desperate+Measures|url-status=dead))</ref> and the [[Oakland Bay Bridge]]. The film was released on January 30, 1998 and was a [[box office bomb|critical and financial failure]]. However, Andy García won an [[ALMA Award]] for "Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role".<!-- DO NOT CHANGE THIS -->

==Plot==
[[San Francisco]] police officer and widowed father Frank Conner is in a frantic search for a compatible [[bone marrow]] [[donor]] for his [[leukemia]]-stricken son, Matt. In desperation, he breaks into [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] headquarters and finds a perfect match. Unfortunately, it is Peter McCabe, a [[antisocial personality disorder|sociopath]] who is serving [[life in prison]] for several murders. During his time in prison, the brutal, cunning McCabe has attempted escape and killed several guards and fellow prisoners, and must be kept in multiple restraints when out of the [[Security Housing Unit|SHU]] in the supermax at [[Pelican Bay State Prison]].

McCabe initially shows little interest in helping Conner, but later finds an opportunity to turn the situation to his advantage and devises a plot to escape. Biding his time, McCabe plays chess against a computer, easily defeating the program, and expresses the need for a challenge akin to [[Garry Kasparov]] or [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]]. Meanwhile, Conner, along with police captain Cassidy and Matt's physician, Dr. Hawkins, prepare for McCabe to be transferred to the hospital for the [[organ transplant]].

At the hospital, McCabe is given a [[sedative]]. With the aid of a counteracting drug he had obtained from a fellow inmate, McCabe slips out of his restraints, attacks the guards and attempts to escape. Conner and a fellow officer corner him, but McCabe holds a [[scalpel]] to Hawkins' throat, prompting Conner to drop his gun. The other officer gets the drop on McCabe, but Hawkins warns the police that if he dies, his bone marrow becomes useless. Conner stands in the way of the other officer; McCabe takes his gun and shoots the officer.

After hearing what happened, Cassidy immediately orders Conner off the case and removed from the scene. Conner breaks free to search the hospital for McCabe on his own. McCabe causes an explosion with propane tanks, seizes control of the hospital's adjacent wing, holds guards hostage and orders a [[lockdown]] of the building.

Conner and Hawkins make their way to McCabe and convince him to let them inside so that Hawkins can attend to Matt. As McCabe watches Conner on the security cameras, he realizes that his nemesis is a truly devoted father, and develops a grudging respect for him. Conner intervenes when McCabe is about to ambush Cassidy and his [[SWAT]] team with a set of tanks of [[cyclopropane]]. Cassidy is furious that Conner continues to aid an escaped convict, while McCabe is angry that Conner foiled his plan. He kidnaps Matt and descends to the sub-levels of the building.

Matt tries to wound McCabe to give his father a better chance; impressed, McCabe spares Matt and leaves him at the hospital for Conner to find. McCabe then escapes into San Francisco, where he steals a car. Conner chases McCabe to a bridge, still needing him captured alive. Cassidy and his men arrive in a helicopter and a sniper opens fire. Conner again shields McCabe and is wounded in the arm. McCabe attempts to flee, but Conner is determined not to let him go. Conner wounds McCabe, sending him off the bridge and into the bay. Conner then dives in and saves him.

Back in the hospital, a wounded McCabe agrees to the transplant, which saves Matt's life. Even though his career is clearly over, Conner is overjoyed that his son will live. McCabe is informed by a guard that the surgery went well. As the bed reclines upwards and McCabe looks at the guard menacingly, the guard suddenly realizes that his gun is gone. McCabe holds it over the guard and asks, "What kind of car do you have?".

==Cast==
* [[Michael Keaton]] as Peter J. McCabe
* [[Andy García]] as Detective Frank Conner
* [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]] as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
* [[Marcia Gay Harden]] as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
* [[Erik King]] as Detective Nate Oliver
* Efrain Figueroa as Detective Vargas
* [[Joseph Michael Cross|Joseph Cross]] as Matthew Conner
* [[Janel Moloney]] as Sarah Davis
* [[Richard Riehle]] as Warden Ed Fayne
* Peter Weireter as SWAT Team Commander
* [[Steve Park]] as Dr. Gosha
* Donna Keegan as Donna, Burning Nurse
* Dennis Cockrum as Head Pelican Bay Guard
* [[Keith Diamond (actor)|Keith Diamond]] as Officer Derrick Wilson
* John Meier as Officer Rains, Cop Shot In ER
* Norman Howell as Officer Kellen, Burnt Cop 1
* John Rottger as Officer Trimble, Burnt Cop 2
* [[Tracey Walter]] as Medical Inmate
* [[Michael Shamus Wiles]] as Tough Inmate

==Reception==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 19% based on reviews from 31 critics. The site's consensus states: "Times aren't desperate enough for this lame thriller to be called for."<ref name="tomatoes">((cite web |title=Desperate Measures (1997) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/desperate_measures/ |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= 2020-10-21 ))</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">((cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 |access-date= 2019-08-30 ))</ref>

[[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote, "By the time ''Desperate Measures'' degenerates into an old-fashioned car chase, you may wish you were watching ''[[General Hospital]]''. Although I suspect there is plenty of bone-marrow-and leukemia-related preposterousness here, my limited medical education precludes me from informed eyeball rolling. I may not be a doctor, but I know a movie with iron-poor blood when I see one."<ref>((cite magazine|first=Lisa|last=Schwarzbaum|author-link=Lisa Schwarzbaum|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,281755,00.html|title=Movie Review: Desperate Measures|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|publisher=[[Meredith Corporation]]|location=New York City|date=January 30, 1998|access-date=April 6, 2018|archive-date=December 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216190245/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,281755,00.html|url-status=dead))</ref> Online film critic [[James Berardinelli]] stated, "when you consider how many contrivances the characters have to endure to reach the ending, you may think that the title has more to do with the film makers' approach than with anything that happens on screen."<ref>((cite web|first=James|last=Berardinelli|author-link=James Berardinelli|title=Review: Desperate Measures|url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/d/desperate.html|work=Reelviews.net|date=January 30, 1998|access-date=April 6, 2018))</ref>

==Awards==
'''[[ALMA Awards]]''' (1999)
* '''Won''', "Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role" - Andy Garcia<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118966/awards|title = Desperate Measures - IMDb| website=[[IMDb]] ))</ref>

==Remake==
This film was remade in Hindi by the title ''[[Jung (2000 film)|Jung]]'' starring [[Sanjay Dutt]].((Citation needed|date=August 2019))

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb title|id=0118966|title=Desperate Measures))
* ((Mojo title|desperatemeasures|Desperate Measures))

((Barbet Schroeder))

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[[Category:American chase films]]
[[Category:Fictional portrayals of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police]]
[[Category:Films directed by Barbet Schroeder]]
[[Category:Films set in Pittsburgh]]
[[Category:Films set in hospitals]]
[[Category:Medical-themed films]]
[[Category:Mandalay Pictures films]]
[[Category:TriStar Pictures films]]
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[[Category:Films scored by Trevor Jones]]
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