Desperate Hours (1990)

Directed by

Michael Cimino

Genre

thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 223 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family is held captive in their own home by a group of escaped convicts. The father must find a way to outsmart the criminals and protect his loved ones.

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What happens

Desperate Hours is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Michael Cimino. It is a remake of the 1955 film of the same name and an adaptation the 1954 novel by Joseph Hayes, who also co-wrote the script with Cimino based on a treatment by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. Cimino was not credited as writer on the finished product. The film stars Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins, with Mimi Rogers, Kelly Lynch, Lindsay Crouse and Elias Koteas in supporting roles. It marks Cimino's third collaboration with Rourke, having previously worked with him on the films Heaven's Gate and Year of the Dragon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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