Anyone know what film this could be based on description?

Question

All I can remember is I watched half of it when I was younger and I missed the second half. Basically, I remember the film was set in a hospital and something happened, like a terrorist or hostages or something like that? Maybe one guy holding people hostage. I think there was a sick child in there that people were worried about most or something?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Was it Desperate Measures starring Michael Keaton?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1j4oZVfQfM

Answer 2

It could be this one:

John Q (2002)

starring Denzel Washington, Kimberly Elise, Daniel E. Smith, Laura Harring

IMDb synopsis:

John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.



Here's another:

Desperate Measures (1998)

starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Joseph Cross

IMDb synopsis:

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor 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 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.



Here's a third one, but it doesn't involve a sick child:

Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992 TV movie)

IMDb synopsis:

Rick Worthington assaults Alta Vista Hospital, taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life by sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb.



For another hospital hostage (no child)...

The Hostage Heart (1977 TV movie)

starring Sharon Acker, George DiCenzo, Cameron Mitchell, Peter Palmer, Belinda Montgomery, Carl Weathers, Bradford Dillman, Loretta Swit, Vic Morrow, Hari Rhodes

IMDb synopsis:

When a billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and draw guns and holds the man and the entire surgical staff hostage. They then demand $10 million. The administrator calls the police and the FBI. The police claim jurisdiction over the matter, and the man in charge is intent on taking them, even if some of the hostages get killed. Eventually, they learn that some of the people in hospital are with them.



Those might make an interesting marathon!

Answer 3

Could it have been The Day After Tomorrow, or The Sum of All Fears? Both of them had a character that worked in a hospital after a traumatic event happened (terrible storm in The Day After Tomorrow, nuclear bomb in The Sum of All Fears).