Factual error: Peter McCabe escapes the operating room partly by turning his oxygen supply into a flamethrower. 100% oxygen makes everything extremely flammable, but it cannot be lit like a flamethrower.
Desperate Measures (1998)
Plot summary
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor (Andy Garcia) is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton) who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most - freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
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