An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Desperate Hours has generally received mixed reviews.
Cinafilm features reviews from top contributing critics and users.
Review of Desperate Hours (1990)
By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Oct 1993
Review of Desperate Hours (1990)
By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 20 Nov 2001
Review of Desperate Hours (1990)
By Jo Berry (104) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Mar 1994
Review of Desperate Hours (1990)
By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Jun 2016
Wow! No positive reviews yet.
Stay tuned - we add thousands of new movie reviews every day.
Review of Desperate Hours (1990)
By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Aug 2018
More About This Page
Desperate Hours was released in 1990 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving Desperate Hours (1990) an average rating of 46%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 40%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 10%. Professional critics were more impressed with Desperate Hours than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 46%, Desperate Hours is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1990, which stands at 58%.
Popular Movies Right Now
