Details

Release year: 2006

Storyline

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

Top credits

Directors

Mick Garris

Writers

Stephen King

Cast

Tom Skerritt — John Edward Marinville
Steven Weber — Steve Ames
Annabeth Gish — Mary Jackson
Charles Durning — Tom Billingsley

See all 22 credits →

Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

See all awards →

Did you know

• Stephen King was reportedly annoyed that the ABC Network decided to show the film on the same evening that the popular TV series American Idol (2002) aired. King blamed the network's poor scheduling decision for the disappointing ratings that Desperation received.

• Stephen King's original novel was released simultaneously with "The Regulators," written by King's alter ego, Richard Bachman. Though the story and location are different, many characters appear in both novels.

• In Johnny Marinville's (Tom Skerritt) flashback to Vietnam, the club that he flees just before the explosion was built into an empty storefront on Tucson's Congress Street. It's directly across from the Hotel Congress, where John Dillinger and his gang were based when they were in Tucson. As of September 2006 the storefront remains empty and boarded up.