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Looker

Looker

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Overview:

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.
Released: 1981-10-30
Duration: 01:34:00
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton
Cast: Leigh Taylor-Young, Pamela Jean Bryant, Albert Finney, ...
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton
Cast: Leigh Taylor-Young Pamela Jean Bryant Albert Finney Eloise Hardt James Coburn Terry Kiser Susan Dey Randi Brooks Ashley Cox Melissa Prophet Jeana Keough Lori Sutton Tim Rossovich Michael Hawkins Estelle Omens Kathryn Witt Catherine Parks Dorian Harewood Darryl Hickman Terri Welles Donna Kei Benz Vanna White Anita Merritt Tawny Moyer
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
Description

Dr. Larry Roberts (Finney), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is puzzled when four beautiful models working in television commercials request cosmetic surgery to make changes so minor as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. When these models later start dying under mysterious circumstances, he discovers they are all linked to the same advertisement research firm.

The Digital Matrix research firm rates advertising models using a scoring system to measure the combined visual impact of various physical attributes in television commercials. In an experiment to increase their scores, some models are sent to Dr. Roberts to get cosmetic surgery to maximize their visual impact. Though the models are physically perfect after the surgery, they still are not as effective as desired, so the research firm decides to use a different approach. Each model is offered a contract to have her body scanned digitally to create 3D computer-generated models, then the 3D models are animated for use in commercials. The contracts seem to be incredibly lucrative for the models; once their bodies are represented digitally, they get a paycheck for life, never having to work again, since their digital models are used for all their future work in commercials.

However, when these same models start dying under mysterious circumstances, Roberts becomes suspicious and decides to investigate Digital Matrix. He has a strong interest in investigating the deaths: he is considered a prime suspect by the police (from evidence planted at the scene of one of the murders) and his most recent patient, Cindy (Susan Dey), with whom he begins a romantic relationship. Cindy is the last of the models to be digitally scanned.

During his investigation, Roberts discovers some advanced technology that the Digital Matrix corporation is using to hypnotize consumers into buying the products they advertise. He also discovers a light pulse device, the Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.) gun, that gives the illusion of invisibility by instantly mesmerizing its victims into losing all sense of time.

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