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Warner Archive Collection
51 mins ·
LOOKER (1981)
NEW 2018 1080p HD remaster!
Run Time 93:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Introduction and Commentary by Michael Crichton; Deleted Scene (As Used in Network Television Version); Theatrical Trailer

That TV commercial actress is so seductive she could sell you anything. She’s only a computer-generated illusion. What about the real beauty who was the computer’s model? Sorry, you can’t meet her: She and others like her have been murdered.

Writer/director Michael Crichton (ER, Coma) reaches into his brain-teasing bag of tricks for a mesmerizing thriller full of unfriendly persuasion generated by high-tech trickery. Albert Finney stars as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose supermodel clients start dying mysteriously. Susan Dey plays his latest patient, also now in peril. And James Coburn is the head of a research facility which has developed a subtly hypnotic way to sell things. Take a good look at sleek, chic, scary Looker. There’s a lot more than meets the eye.

 
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About to watch this for the first time - I’ve seen/read most of Michael Crichton’s work and he’s (almost) always reliably entertaining.
 

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Wow, wow, wow...this is so completely of its time, both in style and story and cheesiness and music score and... this movie about computers is almost what I’d imagine a future computer would spit out if someone showed it every sci-fi techno pseudo medical thriller from say ‘78 - ‘82 and asked it to synthesize one.

I mean that all as praise, of course. I’m having fun without taking it very seriously.

I love that the computer scientists are all wearing lab coats as if you need a jacket to sit and watch a monitor in a truck next to a beach volleyball game.
 

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I bought this when it was released, but haven’t gotten around to watching it. May have to give it a spin this weekend.
 

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