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Desperate Measures
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Desperate Measures is a 1998 American action thriller film adapted by David Klass from his own novel of the same name, directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Michael Keaton and Andy GarcÃa.San Francisco police officer Frank Conner (Garcia) is trying to locate a bone marrow donor for his son Matt, who has leukemia. He discovers a compatible donor in an imprisoned criminal named Peter McCabe (Keaton), and must convince him to donate his bone marrow. McCabe, who is deemed a dangerous sociopath, takes very little convincing to go along with Frank's request. McCabe has his own plan to escape which he pursues ruthlessly, and it's up to Frank to chase him down in time to save his son's life. | |
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Must Let Them Get Away | |
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Must Let Them Get Away: At several times, Frank must allow McCabe to escape because killing him would destroy his viability as a donor, and McCabe offers Frank no other choice but to let him run or kill him outright. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Subverted- while the trailers made it clear that McCabe was necessary to save Matt's life, they never explained that it was a surgical procedure, and almost implied it was a supernatural reason. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Frank doesn't take kindly to guns being pointed at his son. | |
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Crusading Widow | |
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Crusading Widow: Frank's wife is a Posthumous Character at the start of the film and all he has left is his son. | |
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Hollywood Hacking | |
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Hollywood Hacking: McCabe's exploitation of the prison computer systems borders on this. | |
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Shipped in Shackles | |
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Shipped in Shackles: McCabe is far too dangerous to be transferred between locations without handcuffs on his hands and feet. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: McCabe would never kill a child, despite threatening to do so. | |
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Redemption Rejection | |
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Redemption Rejection: McCabe doesn't even care for redemption, seeing it as an empty meaningless concept. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: McCabe takes Matt as a hostage to keep Frank from pursuing him in the maintenance tunnels of the hospital and threatens to kill Matt and 'make Frank's problem go away forever'. Later, McCabe admits to Matt that he'd never kill him, but making the threat is still a pretty disgusting thing to do. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: McCabe is apparently a mass murderer, but he is only presented in any detail as having killed prison guards and fellow inmates, leaving little explanation of the murders that landed him in prison in the first place. McCabe does describe his first victims as "a lady in a hat" and "a guy in a store", but no further details are given. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Peter McCabe never exactly warms up, but ultimately comes to respect Frank for loving his son in a way that McCabe was never loved by his own father. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Frank Conner all but destroys his career in order to pursue McCabe to save his son. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: McCabe will use his fists, knives, guns, syringes filled with hydrochloric acid, and everything up to improvised explosives to fight the cops and escape. | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: McCabe doesn't believe in any kind of morality and feels no remorse for his victims, saying he could not imagine a god who would care. However, it's Matt who truly believes in futility as he has come to accept that there is no hope and that his leukemia will kill him. | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul: McCabe is first seen wearing glasses with a cold emotionless expression on his face. | |
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I Just Want to Be Free | |
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I Just Want to Be Free: All that McCabe really wants, and he'll do anything to get it. | |
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Schiff One-Liner | |
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Schiff One-Liner: "What kind of car do you have?" | |
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God Is Evil | |
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God Is Evil: McCabe says he can't imagine any other kind could possibly exist. | |
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Boxed Crook | |
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Boxed Crook: In the original deal, McCabe is offered some more prison comforts if he'll donate his bone marrow. | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist | |
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Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Frank's Boss, Capt. Jeremiah Cassidy. | |
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Sympathetic Murderer | |
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Sympathetic Murderer: McCabe, just a little bit. | |
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Evil Genius | |
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Evil Genius: McCabe is described as having no real formal education above the ninth grade, but possesses an IQ of over 150. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: McCabe is barely slowed down by a bullet to the leg for most of the film. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Peter McCabe is very pleasant with Frank and the hospital staff, yet attempts to kill many of them without hesitation in order to escape. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: When Matt tries to disarm McCabe with a wrench, Peter comments that they definitely have compatible genes. | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child: McCabe is perfectly willing to kill people who try to kill or capture him but he won't shoot innocent children. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: The end of the film implies that after being recaptured and donating the bone marrow, McCabe still escapes scott-free. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Peter McCabe retorts that he doesn't have much faith in fathers after Frank says he tries to be a good dad to Matt. | |
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Novelization | |
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Novelization: By Robert Tine. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: McCabe claims his father "beat the shit out of him" every day. | |
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Criminal Mind Games | |
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Criminal Mind Games | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: McCabe is a mix of Type 1 and 2. He has no particular desire to steal or murder or commit any crimes for his own gain or For the Evulz. He just wants to escape and disappear, and he'll gladly kill to do it. | |
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Justified Criminal | |
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Justified Criminal: McCabe, by his own twisted logic. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Matt, whose need for a marrow transplant kickstarts the plot. | |
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The Unfettered | |
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The Unfettered: Peter McCabe. While there are some lines Frank Conner won't cross, there is no line that is sacred for McCabe. | |
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Troubled Child | |
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Troubled Child: Matt has become heartbreakingly resigned to dying young to the point where he has become a Nietzsche Wannabe. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: McCabe appears to be a master of thinking on his feet and exploiting whatever he can find for his own ends. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: McCabe towards Matt, the only person he shows any kindness to. He even urges Matt to become The Determinator and keep fighting like Peter and Frank do. He still doesn't put Matt's life over his own freedom though. | |
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