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Looker

Looker (1981) Movie Poster
  •  USA  •    •  93m  •    •  Directed by: Michael Crichton.  •  Starring: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Witt, Terri Welles, Michael Hawkins, Ashley Cox, Donna Kei Benz, Catherine Parks.  •  Music by: Barry De Vorzon.
        Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

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Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
Image from: Looker (1981)
'Looker' is Michael Crichton's look at cutting edge technology such as the digital manipulation of images. Heady stuff for the time, but twenty years later the movie barely works as a thriller. However it does succeed on a kitsch level, and is pretty entertaining if you don't take it all that seriously.

Brit vet Albert Finney (his first "American period" circa 'Wolfen') is teamed up with bimbo model Susan Dey (Laurie Partridge to 70s kids) to thwart a hi-tech conspiracy headed by super-cool James Coburn and sidekick Leigh Taylor-Young ('Soylent Green'). Features an ultra-cheesy theme song, a time "freezing" stun gun, a brief nude scene from Dey, and as a special kick for genre fans a cameo by 'The Tingler's Darryl Hickman.


Review by Infofreak from the Internet Movie Database.

 
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