Desperate Measures

Crumbling 1998 San Francisco sun on a hospital’s glass skin. Frank Connor guards a skull-tagged boy while Peter McCabe, manacled to a stainless gurney, studies the exit sign above. A Schroeder chamber-thriller chasing daylight through steel corridors.

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Barbet Schroeder directed Desperate Measures in 1998. See Barbet Schroeder's full filmography, where to start with Barbet Schroeder, or where to go after you've seen everything by Barbet Schroeder.

Desperate Measures was released in 1998 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 100 minutes.