Desperate Measures
Barbet Schroeder
Frank Connor, one of San Francisco's finest police officers, has to find a bone marrow donor to save his son who is seriously ill. When he finds a match he is faced with a dilemma: the only compatible donor is a serial killer serving life...
With : Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden
Screenplay : David Klass
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Trevor Jones
Decors : Geoffrey Kirkland
Costumes : Gary Jones
Screenplay : David Klass
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Trevor Jones
Decors : Geoffrey Kirkland
Costumes : Gary Jones
Production : Eagle Point, Mandalay Entertainment
Distribution: UGC PH
Distribution: UGC PH
After a family drama, Schroeder moved onto a psychological thriller, while still investigating the same theme: a father breaking the rules of society to try to save his child. "It's precisely because I made Before and After that I wanted to do the exact opposite with a similar subject" (Barbet Schroeder). Desperate measures is an action film, not a drama, the duality between good and evil is more violent and concrete. "The ‘good guy' has to cross the line of Evil and finds himself faced with a terrifying moral dilemma: when should he stop being a cop and start being a father and vice versa" (Barbet Schroeder). The film also looks at the conflict between the intimate and the political, private life and general good.