Thriller starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. San Francisco cop Frank Connor is desperate to find a suitable bone marrow donor for his critically ill son. The perfect match is a homicidal sociopath serving a life sentence so when he escapes, the race is on to recapture him - but he has to be kept alive.
A good premise, a great cast and an excellent director (Barbet Schroeder) amount to very little in this dumb thriller that rapidly goes downhill. Andy Garcia stars as a policeman who needs the rare bone marrow of the very unhinged Michael Keaton in order to save his son. Initially an intriguing variant on The Silence of the Lambs, the movie develops into an implausible action thriller as the overacting Keaton runs amok in a hospital leaving Garcia with a dilemma. It's so idiotic at times that you wonder if anybody actually read the script before signing on.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Peter McCabe | Michael Keaton |
| Frank Connor | Andy Garcia |
| Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | Brian Cox (1) |
| Dr Samantha Hawkins | Marcia Gay Harden |
| Nate Oliver | Erik King |
| Vargus | Efrain Figueroa |
| Matthew Conner | Joseph Cross |
| Sarah Davis | Janel Moloney |
| Ed Fayne | Richard Riehle |
| Medical inmate | Tracey Walter |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Barbet Schroeder |
