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Desperate Measures

Year:
Duration:
100 min
Genres:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6
Director:
Barbet Schroeder
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1998-01-30
Filming Locations: Québec, Canada
Earnings
Budget: $50,000,000
Opening Weekend: $5,833,412 (USA) (1 February 1998)
Gross: $13,806,137 (USA) (19 April 1998)
Cast
Actor
Character
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton
Desperate Measures
Andy Garcia
Frank Conner
Brian Cox
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Marcia Gay Harden
Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Erik King
Nate Oliver
Efrain Figueroa
Vargas
Joseph Cross
Matthew Conner
Janel Moloney
Sarah Davis
Richard Riehle
Ed Fayne
Tracey Walter
Medical Inmate
Peter Weireter
SWAT Team Commander
Keith Diamond
Derrick Wilson
Steve Park
Dr. Gosha
Steven Schub
SWAT in Airduct
Neal Matarazzo
Cell Guard
Dennis Cockrum
Pelican Bay Head Guard
Charles Noland
Cigarette Guard
Randy Thompson
Library Guard
Michael Shamus Wiles
Tough Inmate
Darren Pearce
Convoy Guard
Eric Tignini
Convoy Guard
Billy Kane
Laser Technician
Christine Ashe
Young ER Nurse
Donna M. Duffy
ER Nurse
Troy Robinson
Cop Escorting Frank
Robert Baier
Security Booth Guard
David Flick
SWAT Sharpshooter in Street
Joe Drago
Doctor at Walkway
Josh Kemble
SWAT Sniper on Roof
Scott Colomby
Patrol Cop
Howard Meehan
Policeman on Street
Tim Kelleher
Helicopter Shooter
Cliff Fleming
SWAT Helicopter Pilot
Dirk Vahle
SWAT Helicopter Pilot
Craig Hosking
SWAT Helicopter Pilot (as Craig Hoskings)
Jack Gill
Motorcyclist
Scott Waugh
Motorcyclist
Danny Rogers
Motorcyclist
John Meier
Rains, Cop shot in ER
Norman Howell
Kellen, Burnt Cop 1 (as Norm Howell)
John Rottger
Trimble, Burnt Cop 2
Donna Keegan
Donna, Burning Nurse
Jonathan Adler
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Tony Amen
Visitor in Hospital (uncredited)
John Lizzi
Detective in Chase (uncredited)
Neil O'Neill
Police Detective (uncredited)
Dwayne Pintoff
Police Officer (uncredited)
Dan Rosenberg
Doctor (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The film is set in San Francisco, but actually filmed in Pittsburgh. They used Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh because it is a brick road like many of the roads in San Francisco. Also the front of the hospital is really One Mellon Bank Center located on Grant Street, the same building in the helicopter scene of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Sudden Death (1995).
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Michael Bay was originally set to direct but pulled out to do The Rock (1996).
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In addition to some of the scenes filmed in Pittsburgh, an elaborate set was constructed in a vacant hangar at what is now known as the San Bernardino International Airport, what used to be Norton Air Force base. Both the jail/prison was three stories high and the hospital, built to the same level, were both physically connected by the concourse seen in the movie.
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Goofs
During the car chase, a police unit radios 'I have the blue '89 Ford pickup eastbound on Van Ness'; however, Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco is a principal north-south street.
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When Conner is helping a shot officer shot in the arm, the officer's shirt is open showing a stomach wound and his white t-shirt with a big blood stain. In the next shot, the shirt is buttoned and we see his uniform is navy blue. His open shirt is seen in next shot as he is on table being examined.
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When Pete was on the computer towards the beginning of the movie you can clearly see that there is only one cord plugged into the computer. So that means that the mouse wasn't plugged in or the keyboard wasn't plugged in, when he was using both.
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Quotes
Peter McCabe: [after agreeing to transplant] These cigarettes are stale. You tell that cop and his dead kid I won't stand for stale cigarettes.
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Peter McCabe: Do you like school, Matt? I Fucking hated every minute of it.
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Peter McCabe: What are you gonna do? Shoot me, Frank?
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Photos from cast
Michael Keaton
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