Desperate Hours

For the 1955 original film (of which this is a remake), see The Desperate Hours (1955 film). For the 2007 film with the alternative title Desperate Hours, see Butterfly on a Wheel. For other uses, see The Desperate Hours (disambiguation).
Desperate Hours
Directed byMichael Cimino
Screenplay by
Based onThe Desperate Hours
by Joseph Hayes
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDoug Milsome
Edited by
Music byDavid Mansfield
Production
companies
Distributed byMGM/UA Distribution Co.[1]
Release date
  • October 5, 1990 (1990-10-05)
Running time
106 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$18 million[2]
Box office$2.7 million (US)[3]

Desperate Hours is a 1990 American neo-noir[4] 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.[1] The film stars Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Kelly Lynch, Lindsay Crouse, Elias Koteas and David Morse. It marks Cimino's third collaboration with Rourke, having previously worked with him on the films Heaven's Gate and Year of the Dragon.

  1. ^ a b c "AFI|Catalog".
  2. ^ "Director Cimino Stays Under Budget In New Film". Orlando Sentinel. 1990-10-01. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  3. ^ "Desperate Hours (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  4. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5