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 by
Michael Cimino
Screenplay by
Joseph Hayes
Lawrence Konner
Mark Rosenthal
Michael Cimino (uncredited)
Based on
The Desperate Hours by Joseph Hayes
Produced by
Michael Cimino
Dino De Laurentiis
Starring
Mickey Rourke
Anthony Hopkins
Mimi Rogers
Lindsay Crouse
Kelly Lynch
Elias Koteas
Cinematography
Doug Milsome
Edited by
Christopher Rouse
Peter R. Hunt (supervising editor)
Music by
David Mansfield
Production companies
Dino De Laurentiis Communications Cannon Films Film and Television Company [1]
Distributed by
MGM/UA Distribution Co.[2]
Release date
October 5, 1990 (1990-10-05)
Running time
106 minutes
Language
English
Budget
$18 million[3]
Box office
$2.7 million (US)[4]
Desperate Hours is a 1990 American neo-noir[5] 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.[6] 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.
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^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
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