Looker
by Michael Crichton
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Actor: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-young, Susan DeyDirector: Michael Crichton
Brand: FINNEY,ALBERT
Writer: Michael Crichton
Producer: Howard Jeffrey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 111204
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- A plastic surgeon (Albert Finney) gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy (Susan Dey), the next in line to be killed, he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. Directed and written by Michael Crichton (Westworld, Coma).Running Time: 93 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating:
Movie Reviews of Looker
Movie Review: It's about time this is on DVD. FINALLY!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful thriller from Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) about models that are being killed by a corporation (Digital Matrix) that is vying to fix a Presidential Election. Throw in some car chases, cheesy commercials for fake products, a naked Susan Dey, guns that shoot light, a great pop/rock theme song, and you have one interesting movie. The end is just genius as the real world is blended with the pre-animated CG commercials.
Also, these are not cookie cutter one-dimensional characters either. They are very well developed and explored. The scene when Susan Dey goes home to get help from her parents is particularly sad but true in some households.
I rate this movie right up there with Blade Runner, The Matrix and the original Stepford Wives. Movies that change my perception of the world are a rare breed.
It def woke me up to the fact that advertising is such a fabric of our life and what could be done if technology (it's all coming true now, in 2007) could be used in a bad way.
PLOT SPOILERS! Please read on only if you've seen the movie.
While it is a subtle plot point in the movie, it is obviously alluded to that Digital Matrix is conspiring with a politician to basically hypnotize the public into voting for him. We can go on forever about why the models were really being killed (it's because Digital Matrix didn't want to pay the girls) and why the Presidential race plot point wasn't more prominent in the movie. But what I want to know is was the guy who was running for president even still alive? The thought hit me the other day... what if Digital Matrix has his CG persona and then killed him? They would run the country with the CG puppet of the senator. Maybe it's possible that the public could be hypnotized in such a way that they'd never care to wonder why no one has physically seen the pres in a looong time. I would sure wonder why he only makes televised speeches from his secured office in the White House after all. Just a thought I had, too bad it wasn't elaborated more in the movie :(
Summary of Looker
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 30-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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