Director Barbet Schroeder (1941)

The film Desperate Measures (1998) directed by Barbet Schroeder, follows the story of Frank Conner, a police officer and single father in San Francisco. In a race against time to find a bone marrow donor for his son Matt, who is battling leukemia, Frank resorts to extreme measures. He breaks into FBI headquarters and discovers a potential match in the form of Peter McCabe – a notorious sociopath serving life in prison for multiple murders. McCabe’s record includes numerous escape attempts and killings of guards and inmates, resulting in him being restricted with multiple restraints while out of his cell in ...